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Bradford Distribution

$$\begin{eqnarray*} c & > & 0\\ k & = & \log\left(1+c\right)\end{eqnarray*}$$

$$\begin{eqnarray*} f\left(x;c\right) & = & \frac{c}{k\left(1+cx\right)}I_{\left(0,1\right)}\left(x\right)\\ F\left(x;c\right) & = & \frac{\log\left(1+cx\right)}{k}\\ G\left(\alpha\; c\right) & = & \frac{\left(1+c\right)^{\alpha}-1}{c}\\ M\left(t\right) & = & \frac{1}{k}e^{-t/c}\left[\mathrm{Ei}\left(t+\frac{t}{c}\right)-\mathrm{Ei}\left(\frac{t}{c}\right)\right]\\ \mu & = & \frac{c-k}{ck}\\ \mu_{2} & = & \frac{\left(c+2\right)k-2c}{2ck^{2}}\\ \gamma_{1} & = & \frac{\sqrt{2}\left(12c^{2}-9kc\left(c+2\right)+2k^{2}\left(c\left(c+3\right)+3\right)\right)}{\sqrt{c\left(c\left(k-2\right)+2k\right)}\left(3c\left(k-2\right)+6k\right)}\\ \gamma_{2} & = & \frac{c^{3}\left(k-3\right)\left(k\left(3k-16\right)+24\right)+12kc^{2}\left(k-4\right)\left(k-3\right)+6ck^{2}\left(3k-14\right)+12k^{3}}{3c\left(c\left(k-2\right)+2k\right)^{2}}\\ m_{d} & = & 0\\ m_{n} & = & \sqrt{1+c}-1\end{eqnarray*}$$

where $\mathrm{Ei}\left(\mathrm{z}\right)$ is the exponential integral function. Also

$$h\left[X\right]=\frac{1}{2}\log\left(1+c\right)-\log\left(\frac{c}{\log\left(1+c\right)}\right)$$

Implementation: scipy.stats.bradford