On Gauss's characterization of the normal distribution

Bernoulli

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 169-174

  Azzalini, Adelchi ^a   Genton, Marc G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cauchy functional equation; Characterization property; Location family; Maximum likelihood; Normal distribution; Sample mean vector

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149016755     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/07-BEJ5166     Document Type: Article

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