Inequalities involving expectations to characterize distributions

Subarna Bhattacharjee, Asok K. Nanda and Satya Kr. Misra

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2013, vol. 83, issue 9, 2113-2118

Abstract: The characterization of distributions is well known in the field of Statistics and Reliability. This paper characterizes a few distributions with the help of failure rate, mean residual, log-odds rate, and aging intensity functions.

Keywords: Gini’s mean difference; Logistic distribution; Log-odds rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2013.05.022

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