Characterization of the cubic exponential families by orthogonality of polynomials

Annals of Probability

Volumn 32, Issue 3 B, 2004, Pages 2463-2476

  Hassairi, Abdelhamid ^a,b   Zarai, Mohammed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b Faculté des Sciences de Sfax   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Exponential family; Orthogonal polynomials; Sheffer polynomials; Variance function

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544262208     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009117904000000522     Document Type: Article

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