A Probabilistic Proof of Ramanujan’s {}_1 \psi _1 Sum

DOI10.1137/0518110zbMATH Open0638.62011OpenAlexW1978862030MaRDI QIDQ3779573FDOQ3779573

Authors: Kevin W. J. Kadell 

Publication date: 1987

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/0518110

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zbMATH Keywords

beta distributionF distributiondiscrete distributionsorder statisticsMann-Whitney statisticbeta integralGaussian polynomialq-gamma functionq-binomial theoremq-chi-squared distributionq-F distributionRamanujan's psi-sum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Classical hypergeometric functions, ({}_2F_1) (33C05) Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15)

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