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A characterization of the exponential distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

M. Ahsanullah and
M. Rahman
M. Ahsanullah
Affiliation:
Food and Drug Directorate, Ottawa
M. Rahman
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Ottawa
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Abstract

A necessary and sufficient condition based on order statistics that a positive random variable having an absolutely continuous probability distribution (with respect to Lebesgue measure) will be exponential is given.

Keywords

CHARACTERIZATION OF EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONORDER STATISTICS

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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 1972, pp. 457 - 461
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1972 

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