A note on the 'lack of memory' property of the exponential distribution

DOI10.1214/aop/1176996406zbMath0336.60017OpenAlexW2012723569MaRDI QIDQ1230304

Alberto Tubilla, George Marsaglia

Publication date: 1975

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176996406

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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