ON THE UNIMODALITY OF GENERALIZED POISSON DISTRIBUTION

P. C. Consul; F. Famoye

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9574.1986.tb01197.x

ON THE UNIMODALITY OF GENERALIZED POISSON DISTRIBUTION

P. C. Consul, F. Famoye

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Abstract

Abstract. The unimodality property is very important in many statistical problems. In this paper, it is shown that the generalized Poisson distribution is unimodal. Upper and lower bounds to the mode are given.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	117-122
Number of pages	6
Journal	Statistica Neerlandica
Volume	40
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9574.1986.tb01197.x
State	Published - Jun 1986

Keywords

Lagrangian Poisson probability distribution
bounds
unimodality

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ON THE UNIMODALITY OF GENERALIZED POISSON DISTRIBUTION

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