Families of power series distributions, with particular reference to the Lerch family

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2255-2259

  Kemp, Adrienne W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Families of power series distributions; Lerch family; Stochastic process models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951091154     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.01.021     Document Type: Article

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