Characterizations of the Pareto and related distributions |
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| Authors: | Mohammad Z Raqab Adnan M Awad |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Statistics, UAE University, AL Ain, United Arab Emirates (e-mail: Mraqab@uaeu.ac.ae), AE;(2) Department of Mathematics, University of Jordan, Amman 11942 JORDAN, JO |
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| Abstract: | In this note, a class of Pareto distributions is characterized based on the Shannon entropy of k-record statistics. As a consequence of that characterizations of the uniform and exponential distributions are given.
Received: October 1999 |
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| Keywords: | AMS 1991 Subject Classification: Primary 62E10 Secondary 62G30 |
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