This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A functional equation satisfied by its characteristic function is shown to characterize the exponential distribution. The structural form of ...

A parametric family of distributions is a collection of distributions with a known form that is indexed by a set of quantities called parameters. Methods based on parametric distributions of normal, ...

An important problem in the field of insurance and operational risk is the determination of the distribution function when a compound loss model is used for the total loss. A large variety of methods ...