A note on a characteristic property based on order statistics
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- by C. R. Rao and D. N. Shanbhag
- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 299-302
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03273-X
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Abstract:
It is shown that the extended version of the Puri-Rubin result given recently by Stadje (1994) is neither new nor the most general available in the literature.References
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Bibliographic Information
- C. R. Rao
- Email: crr1@psuvm.psu.edu
- Received by editor(s): August 18, 1994
- Additional Notes: Research sponsored by the Army Research Office under Grant DAAHO4-93-G-0030.
- Communicated by: Richard Durrett
- © Copyright 1996 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 299-302
- MSC (1991): Primary {62E10; Secondary 62E05}
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03273-X
- MathSciNet review: 1317047