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It is argued that there is a need for fat-tailed distributions that become thin in the extreme tail. A 3-parameter distribution is introduced that visually resembles the t-distribution and interpolates between the normal distribution and…
We study a new class of so-called rational-infinitely (or quasi-infinitely) divisible probability laws on the real line. The characteristic functions of these distributions are ratios of the characteristic functions of classical infinitely…
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We give two new simple characterizations of the Cauchy distribution by using the M\"obius and Mellin transforms. They also yield characterizations of the circular Cauchy distribution and the mixture Cauchy model.
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