New sufficient conditions for strong unimodality of multivariate discrete distributions

DOI10.1016/J.DAM.2017.11.026MaRDI QIDQ1701085zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Majed Ghazi Alharbi, Ersoy Subasi, Munevver Mine Subasi

Publication date 22 February 2018

Published in Discrete Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2017.11.026

zbMATH Keywords

discrete multivariate distributionslogconcavitymultivariate Pólya-Eggenberger distributionstrong unimodality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Multivariate distribution of statistics (62H10)

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