The Moment Problem for Unimodal Distributions

DOI10.1214/aoms/1177729590zbMath0044.32303OpenAlexW1965449285WikidataQ92185403 ScholiaQ92185403MaRDI QIDQ5807862

C. A. Rogers, Norman L. Johnson

Publication date: 1951

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177729590

zbMATH Keywords

integral equations, integral transforms

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