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  Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics  
 ISSN: 0972-0863
 
 
 

     Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics
    Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 233 - 251 (March 2008)


A GENERALIZED PURELY EXPONENTIAL UNIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION

K. Zografos (Greece) and S. Kotz (Greece)

Received December 10, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: quantile function, moments, Gini coefficient, status theory, Shannon entropy, Rényi entropy.

 


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