A note on the harmonic law: A two-parameter family of distributions for ratios

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 320-326

  Puig, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Characterization of distributions; Gauss's principle; Generalized inverse Gaussian distribution; Halphen distribution; Harmonic distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149013926     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2007.07.024     Document Type: Article

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