Characterization of exponential distribution through equidistribution conditions for consecutive maxima

Authors Santanu Chakraborty, George P. Yanev

Publication date 18 February 2013

Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30)

Abstract: A characterization of the exponential distribution based on equidistribution conditions for maxima of random samples with consecutive sizes n-1 and n for an arbitrary and fixed n>2 is proved. This solves an open problem stated recently in Arnold and Villasenor (2013).

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