Uniform occurrence of digits for folded and mixture distributions on finite intervals

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 481-506

  Mosimann, James E ^a   Ratnaparkhi, Makarand V ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Characterization of rectangular distribution; Distribution of digits; Occurrence of digits; Rectangular and folded distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342697084     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919608813325     Document Type: Article

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