Characterizations using weighted distributions

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 389-420

  Pakes, Anthony G ^a   Navarro, Jorge ^b   Ruiz, José M ^b   del Aguila, Yolanda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Characterization; Exponential and power series families; Functional iteration; Infinite divisibility; Weighted and length biased distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042709510     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00357-9     Document Type: Article

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