(LL3.1), BISHUNPUR (LL3.1) AND MEZÖ-MADARAS (L3.7): IMPLICATIONS FOR CHONDRULE FORMATION. A. Engler, G. Kurat and P. J. Sylvester, Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2, A-8010 Graz, Austria ([email protected]), Naturhistorisches Museum, Postfach 417, A-1014 Vienna, Austria, Department of Earth Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Jo...

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a Office of Rare Diseases Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States b Office of the Clinical Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States c Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Human Research Protections, Rockville, MD, United States d Combined Ne...

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with two parameters, a (location) and b > 0 (scale), [2, p. 50]. The Cauchy distribution occurs in numerous applications, see, e.g., [3, p. 159]. A recent interest in C(a, b) is due to its “fat tails”, accounting for outliers (rare events) better than the more concentrated distributions commonly used, in particular the normal distribution. Indeed, these “rare” events with significant consequenc...