LENGTH-BIASING, CHARACTERIZATIONS OF LAWS AND THE MOMENT PROBLEM

DOI10.1111/j.1467-842X.1992.tb01363.xzbMath0759.62005MaRDI QIDQ4029922

Ravindra Khattree, Anthony G. Pakes

Publication date: 1 April 1993

Published in: Australian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

functional equationcharacterizationsmoment functionStieltjes moment problemexponentialmoment sequencesfinite meanlength-biasingpositive random variablegeneralized gamma lawsindependent uniform random contractioninduced length-biased lawKrein's criterionlog-normal lawnon-uniform contractions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional equations for real functions (39B22) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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