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On characterizing the Pólya distribution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2002
Abstract
In this paper two characterizations of the Pólya distribution are obtained when its contagion parameter is negative. One of them is based on mixtures and the other one is obtained by characterizing a subfamily of the discrete Pearson system.
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