Reciprocal symmetry, unimodality and Khintchine;s theorem

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 466, Issue 2119, 2010, Pages 2079-2096

  Chaubey, Yogendra P ^a   Mudholkar, Govind S ^b   Jones, M C ^c  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cauchy schl milch transformation; Gaussian inverse gaussian analogies; Khintchine; s theorem; Log symmetry; R symmetry; Unimodal distributions

Indexed keywords

PHYSICS;

GAUSSIANS; INVERSE GAUSSIAN; INVERSE GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; POSITIVE REAL; REAL LINE; STATISTICAL THEORY; SYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; UNIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; UNIMODALITY;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77955195069     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2009.0482     Document Type: Article

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