Does this distribution have a name:
$f(x) = yx^{y-1}$ for 0 < x<1 and $y>0$?
It looks like an exponential distribution. Or is it a nameless distribution?
Does this distribution have a name:
$f(x) = yx^{y-1}$ for 0 < x<1 and $y>0$?
It looks like an exponential distribution. Or is it a nameless distribution?
As Byron Schmuland says, this is a beta distribution with the second parameter $\beta=1$.
It is sometimes called a "standard power-function distribution".