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A Note On Weighted Distributions

Document Type

Article

Keywords

charactreization, chi.-sqacuted, distnibution, inverse Gaussian distribution, length biased sampling

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volume

16

Issue

1

First Page

275

Last Page

280

Abstract

A representation of the “original” random variable (r. v. ) in terms of the “weighted” r.v. is given and the Inverse Gaussian distribution is characterized through a distributional property of the “weighted” r.v. observed under length biased sampling. © 1987, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

Department

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Original Publication Date

1-1-1987

DOI of published version

10.1080/03610928708829364

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