General characterization theorems based on versions of the Chernoff inequality and the Cox representation

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 139-150

  Alharbi, Abdulghani A ^a   Shanbhag, D N ^a  

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Author keywords

Characterizations of probability distributions; Cox's representation for a survivor function; Hazard measure; Poisson and normal distributions; The Chernoff inequality; The Lagrangian identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030607383     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3758(95)00191-3     Document Type: Article

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