On Extreme Stable Laws and Some Applications,

Abstract

It is shown that the extreme stable laws have one-sided moment-generating functions with interesting mathematical forms. The fact that one of these forms, exp (cz log z), is a moment-generating function is used to establish two interesting statistical results: first, that exp (r log r) is a moment sequence for a density with decreasing failure rate, and secondly, that the likelihood ratio test for testing a simple null hypothesis in a multinomial distribution is admissible and Bayes. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0720799

Entities

People

  • Carl Morris
  • Herman Rubin
  • Morris L. Eaton

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Sequences

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

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