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Characterization of the Pearson family of distributions |
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| Authors: | Nair N.U. Sankaran P.G. |
| Affiliation: | Cochin Univ. of Sci. & Technol.; |
| Abstract: | The Pearson family of distributions is characterized in terms of the failure rates. Analogous results when failure time is discrete are presented. Theorems are proved which generalize some previously published results concerning the gamma and negative binomial distributions |
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