On Gauss's characterization of the normal distribution

DOI10.3150/07-BEJ5166zbMath1111.62012MaRDI QIDQ880480

Adelchi Azzalini, Marc G. Genton

Publication date: 15 May 2007

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

normal distributionmaximum likelihoodlocation familyCauchy functional equationcharacterization propertysample mean vector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Point estimation (62F10) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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