Characterizations of a discrete normal distribution

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 223-229

  Kemp, Adrienne W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrete normal distribution; Heine distribution; Maximum entropy; Most probable distribution; Weighted distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031572759     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(97)00020-7     Document Type: Article

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