On the Mittag-Leffler distributions

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-9

  Lin, Gwo Dong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

44A10; 60E07; Completely monotone function; Laplace transform; L vy measure; Mittag Leffler; Positive stable distribution; Primary 60E05

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005023381     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(98)00096-2     Document Type: Article

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