Merger proposal This is the same distribution as Generalized normal distribution While it shouldn t be too hard to merge the two the main question is which name to use Any comments One thing that needs thinking about is how to handle other distributions which are also called generalised normal For example documentaion for R includes a generalised normal distribution which is not the one referred to here see eg Nether of these distributions is what is called either the skew generalised normal or skew normal distribution Also I note that the ISI glossary has Kapteyn s univariate distribution as an alternative name for a generalised normal not clear which but I guess this name should be avoided I agree I added this page recently because I didn t find this distribution under either name on the List of probability distributions page Since Gaussian distribution redirects to Normal distribution I propose that we merge these two pages under generalized normal distribution with a redirect from generalized Gaussian distribution Then we can add a comment in the text about the Kapteyn name I don t know what to do about the other generalized normal distribution Maybe we could have them on the same page with two copies of the probability distribution template On further investigation the generalized normal distribution referred to in the R documentation cited above does not appear to include the normal distribution as a special case also the literature reference in the R code is to a 1990 paper of Hosking s but this paper does not discuss anything like the distribution in the R code and I didn t find any use of the term generalized normal in Hosking s other papers on JSTOR In that sense it is generalized in the same way that the lognormal inverse normal and half normal distributions are i e derived from the normal via a transformation I think we can clarify that generalized here means a parameteric family that includes the normal distribution as a special case This includes skew normal which already has a page that we can link to The above was moved from Talk Generalized Gaussian distribution