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A characterization of the geometric distribution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
Abstract
The geometric distribution is characterized. The lack of memory property is replaced by the constancy of the conditional variance. Then the characterization is obtained.
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Shanbhag, D. N. (1970) Characterizations for the exponential and geometric distributions. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc.
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