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On characterizations of the geometric distribution by independence of functions of order statistics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
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Let X1, · ··, Xn, n ≧ 2 be i.i.d. random variables having a geometric distribution, and let Y1 ≦ Y2 ≦ · ·· ≦ Yn denote the corresponding order statistics. Define Rn = Yn – Y1 and Zn = Σj=2n (Υj – Y1). Then it is well known that (i) Y, and Rn are independent and (ii) Y1 and Zn are independent. In this paper, we show that a very weak form of each of these independence properties is a characterizing property of the geometric distribution in the class of discrete distributions.
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