Characterization of a family of discrete distributions via a chernoff type inequality

Srivastava Deo Kumar and M. Sreehari

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1987, vol. 5, issue 4, 293-294

Abstract: A characterization theorem is proved for a family of non-negative integer valued random variables. The result is based on an inequality of the type proved by Chernoff (1981). Applications of the result for various standard distributions are also discussed.

Keywords: characterization; discrete; distributions; variance; bounds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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