| Preface | 7 |
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| Contents | 8 |
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| 1 Introduction | 10 |
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| 1.1 Distribution of Univariate Continuous Distribution | 10 |
| 1.2 Moment Generating and Characteristic Functions | 10 |
| 1.3 Some Reliability Properties | 11 |
| 1.4 Cauchy Functional Equations | 12 |
| 1.5 Order Statistics | 13 |
| 1.6 Record Values | 14 |
| 1.7 Generalized Order Statistics | 19 |
| 1.8 Lower Generalized Order Statistics (Lgos) | 21 |
| 1.9 Some Useful Functions | 24 |
| 2 Some Continuous Distributions | 25 |
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| 2.1 Beta Distribution | 25 |
| 2.2 Cauchy Distribution | 26 |
| 2.3 Chi-Squared Distribution | 27 |
| 2.4 Exponential Distribution | 28 |
| 2.5 F-Distribution | 30 |
| 2.6 Gamma Distribution | 31 |
| 2.7 Gumbel Distribution | 32 |
| 2.8 Inverse Gaussian (Wald) Distribution | 33 |
| 2.9 Laplace Distribution | 34 |
| 2.10 Logistic Distribution | 35 |
| 2.11 Lognormal Distribution | 36 |
| 2.12 Normal Distribution | 37 |
| 2.13 Pareto Distribution | 38 |
| 2.14 Power Function Distribution | 39 |
| 2.15 Rayleigh Distribution | 40 |
| 2.16 Student’s t-Distribution | 41 |
| 2.17 Weibull Distribution | 41 |
| 3 Characterizations of Distributions by Independent Copies | 43 |
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| 3.1 Characterization of Normal Distribution | 43 |
| 3.2 Characterization of Levy Distribution | 52 |
| 3.3 Characterization of Wald Distribution | 53 |
| 3.4 Characterization of Exponential Distribution | 54 |
| 3.5 Characterization of Symmetric Distribution | 56 |
| 3.6 Charactetrization of Logistic Disribution | 57 |
| 3.7 Characterization of Distributions by Truncated Statistics | 57 |
| 3.7.1 Characterization of Semi Circular Distribution | 59 |
| 3.7.2 Characterization of Lindley Distribution | 59 |
| 3.7.3 Characterization of Rayleigh Distribution | 61 |
| 4 Characterizations of Univariate Distributions by Order Statistics | 62 |
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| 4.1 Characterizations of Student’s t Distribution | 62 |
| 4.2 Characterizations of Distributions by Conditional Expectations (Finite Sample) | 66 |
| 4.3 Characterizations of Distributions by Conditional Expectations (Extended Sample) | 68 |
| 4.4 Characterizations Using Spacings | 69 |
| 4.5 Characterizations of Symmetric Distribution Using Order Statistics | 72 |
| 4.6 Characterization of Exponential Distribution Using Conditional Expectation of Mean | 73 |
| 4.7 Characterizations of Power Function Distribution by Ratios of Order Statistics | 74 |
| 4.8 Characterization of Uniform Distribution Using Range | 76 |
| 4.9 Characterization by Truncated Order Statistics | 78 |
| 5 Characterizations of Distributions by Record Values | 79 |
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| 5.1 Characterizations Using Conditional Expectations | 79 |
| 5.2 Characterization by Independence Property | 82 |
| 5.3 Characterizations Based on Identical Distribution | 88 |
| 6 Characterizations of Distributions by Generalized Order Statistics | 95 |
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| 6.1 Characterizations by Conditional Expectations | 95 |
| 6.2 Characterizations by Equality of Expectations of Normalized Spacings | 101 |
| 6.3 Characterizations by Equality of Distributions | 101 |
| References | 104 |
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| Index | 130 |