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Polya-Type, Schur-Concave and Related Probability Distributions

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The objective of this paper is to give a unified and an extended structure of the above classes of distributions as well as their many applications. The behaviour of these families is investigated under most commonly occurring functional operations such as closure under convolution, a passage to a limit in the weak sense, reversal and mixing properties. The useful and smooth properties of unimodality, strong unimodality and their variants are found to hold for some subclasses of these applicable probability distributions.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, 26 Richmond Street, G1 1XH, Glasgow, Scotland

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Ahmad, R., Abouammoh, A.M. (1978). Polya-Type, Schur-Concave and Related Probability Distributions. In: Transactions of the Eighth Prague Conference. Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, vol 8A. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9857-5_5

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