Natural exponential families with quadratic variance functions

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176345690zbMath0498.62015OpenAlexW2046338987MaRDI QIDQ1171342

Carl N. Morris

Publication date: 1982

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176345690

zbMATH Keywords

momentscumulantsorthogonal polynomialsexponential distributionPoisson distributionnormal distributionnegative binomial distributiongamma distributionbinomial distributiongeometric distributionnatural exponential familiesquadratic variance functionshyperbolic secant distributionlimits in distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinitely divisible distributions; stable distributions (60E07) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Large deviations (60F10)

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