Brittle power: On Roman Emperors and exponential lengths of rule

Estate Khmaladze, Ray Brownrigg and John Haywood

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2007, vol. 77, issue 12, 1248-1257

Abstract: In this paper we demonstrate that lengths of rule of Roman Emperors were exponentially distributed, implying that their reigns ceased unexpectedly, without accumulation of prior tensions, political or economic damages, etc. A distribution-free goodness of fit test of exponentiality is used, based on a transformed empirical process. That test is complemented by further techniques which make use of age at ascent to rule.

Keywords: Chinese; Emperors; Distribution; free; statistics; Durations; of; rule; European; monarchies; Goodness; of; fit; statistics; Local; alternatives; Remaining; life; distributions; Transformed; empirical; processes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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