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About the Stein equation for the generalized inverse Gaussian and Kummer distributions

Probability 2018-08-07 v1 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We propose a Stein characterization of the Kummer distribution on (0, \infty). This result follows from our observation that the density of the Kummer distribution satisfies a certain differential equation, leading to a solution of the related Stein equation. A bound is derived for the solution, under a condition on the parameters. The derivation of this bound is carried out using the same framework as in Gaunt 2017 [A Stein characterisation of the generalized hyper-bolic distribution. ESAIM: Probability and Statistics, 21, 303--316] in the case of the generalized inverse Gaussian distribution, which we revisit by correcting a minor error in the latter paper.

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@article{arxiv.1808.01781,
  title  = {About the Stein equation for the generalized inverse Gaussian and Kummer distributions},
  author = {Essomanda Konzou and Angelo Koudou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.01781},
  year   = {2018}
}