Characterizations of uniform and exponential distributions

Yeu-Hua Too and Gwo Dong Lin

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1989, vol. 7, issue 5, 357-359

Abstract: The uniform distribution can be characterized by an equality involving only two moments of order statistics. Similarly, the exponential distribution can be characterized by an equality involving only two moments of record values.

Keywords: characterization; order; statistic; record; value; uniform; and; exponential; distributions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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