A new type of partial-sums distributions

DOI10.1016/S0167-7152(00)00212-1MaRDI QIDQ5951988zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Gejza Wimmer, Gabriel Altmann

Publication date 8 January 2002

Published in Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-7152(00)00212-1

zbMATH Keywords

Bradford lawdiscrete probability distributionspartial-sums distributionsrank frequency distributionsSalvia-Bollinger distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Infinitely divisible distributions; stable distributions (60E07) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

Review text

The article examines two main types of summation and proposes a new type of partial-sums distributions influenced by the generalized Brookes theoretical explorations of the Bradford laws (Brookes, 1977). The new type of summation is also strongly supported by the so-called rank-frequency distributions from linguistics (and musicology), distributions for which the frequency of an entity at rank \(x\) depends in a way on the sum of frequencies of all entities at ranks \(j>x\). Some of the properties of this new class of distributions are analyzed: the relations between the probability generating function and the moments of the generating and descendent distributions are pointed out, and the unique distribution that remains unaltered after the new summation is shown to be the 1-displaced Salvia-Bollinger distribution.

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