ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
Characterizations of uniform and exponential distributions via moments of the kth record values randomly indexed
Authors 1, 1
Affiliations
- 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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