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Characterizations of Student's t-distribution via regressions of order statistics

Probability 2011-05-06 v1 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

Utilizing regression properties of order statistics, we characterize a family of distributions introduced by Akhundov, Balakrishnan, and Nevzorov (2004), that includes the t-distribution with two degrees of freedom as one of its members. Then we extend this characterization result to t-distribution with more than two degrees of freedom.

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@article{arxiv.1010.4355,
  title  = {Characterizations of Student's t-distribution via regressions of order statistics},
  author = {George P. Yanev and M. Ahsanullah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.4355},
  year   = {2011}
}

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To appear in "Statistics"