OnCharacterization of Distributions Through the Properties of Conditional Expectations of Order Statistics

A Few Characterizations of the Univariate Continuous Distributions

Various characterizations of distributions, in their generality, are presented in terms of the conditional expectations. Some special  examples are given as well.

Some Results Based on Entropy Properties of Progressive Type-II Censored Data

In many life-testing and reliability studies, the experimenter might not always obtain complete information on failure times for all experimental units. One of the most common censoring schemes is progressive type-II censoring. The aim of this paper is characterizing the parent distributions based on Shannon entropy of progressive type-II censored order statistics. It is shown that the equality...

Some New Characterization Results on Exponential and Related Distributions

Ordered Random Variables from Discontinuous Distributions

In the absolutely continuous case, order statistics, record values and several other models of ordered random variables can be viewed as special cases of generalized order statistics, which enables a unified treatment of their theory. This paper deals with discontinuous generalized order statistics, continuing on the recent work of Tran (2006). Specifically, we show that in general neither re...

The Weighted Exponentiated Family of Distributions: Properties, Applications and Characterizations

In this paper a new method of introducing an additional parameter to a continuous distribution is proposed, which leads to a new class of distributions, called the weighted exponentiated family. A special sub-model is discussed. General expressions for some of the mathematical properties of this class such as the moments, quantile function, generating function and order statistics are derived;...