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On a characterization of exponential and double exponential distributions

Probability 2022-03-22 v1 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

Recently, G.~Yanev obtained a characterization of the exponential family of distributions in terms of a functional equation for certain mixture densities. The purpose of this note is twofold: we extend Yanev's theorem by relaxing a restriction on the sign of mixture coefficients and, in addition, obtain a similar characterization for the Laplace family of distributions.

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@article{arxiv.2203.10495,
  title  = {On a characterization of exponential and double exponential distributions},
  author = {Reza Rastegar and Alex Roitershtein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.10495},
  year   = {2022}
}
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