A generalized planck distribution

We introduce a generalization of the standard Planck distribution discussed by Johnson and Kotz (1970, Section 33.6.1). This generalization results in a very flexible family which contains the gamma distribution as a particular case. In this paper we provide a comprehensive treatment of the mathematical properties of the family. We derive expressions for thenth moment, moment generating function, characteristic function, mean deviation about the mean, mean deviation about the median, Rényi entropy, Shannon entropy and the asymptotic distribution of the extreme order statistics. Estimation and simulation issues are also considered.