ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Characterizations of uniform and exponential distributions via moments of the kth record values randomly indexed

Authors 1, 1

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Pl. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej 1, 20-031 Lublin, Poland

Abstract

We characterize uniform and exponential distributions via moments of the kth record statistics. Too and Lin's (1989) results are contained in our approach.

Keywords

sample, record values, exponential, order statistics, Weibull distributions, uniform

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Pages:
307-314
Main language of publication
English
Received
1996-05-09
Accepted
1996-12-02
Published
1997
Exact and natural sciences