An elementary proof for the Rao-Rubin characterization of the Poisson distribution
- 1 March 1974
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 11 (1) , 211-215
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3212601
Abstract
This note gives elementary proofs for the characterizations of the Poisson distribution given by Rao and Rubin (1964) and Talwalker (1970) and disproves a conjecture of R. C. and A. B. L. Srivastava (1970).Keywords
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- On a characterization of Poisson distributionsJournal of Applied Probability, 1972