"It's an absolutely fantastic form of alternative distribution in the future," said Larry Mestel, executive vice president and general manager for Arista Records.
Note that the Pareto distribution and log-normal distribution are alternative distributions for describing the same types of quantities.
Coppola's CRC Productions is also developing and producing content for alternative distribution and interactive platforms.
A number of alternative distributions exist in the Eclipse project.
There have always been elements within the Swedish hip hop scene that has reacted against the commercial aspects of the music industry and have tried to find alternative distribution and marketing channels for the music.
After Geffen terminated its manufacturing and distributing deal with Def American, Rick Rubin arranged alternative distribution with Warner Bros.
The ANOVA F-test (of the null-hypothesis that all treatments have exactly the same effect) is recommended as a practical test, because of its robustness against many alternative distributions.
This shifts the alternative distribution further away from the null distribution and thus increases power.
Depending on the application, the term may refer to the process of sampling from this alternative distribution, the process of inference, or both.
Smaller movies with limited appeal could have the most to gain from alternative distribution, either through movie downloads or bypassing studios altogether and selling DVD's directly to consumers.