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Characterizing the geometric distribution using expectations of order statistics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
Abstract
The constancy of the conditional expectation of some appropriate functions of order statistics on some others, is used to characterize the geometric distribution among the discrete distributions.
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