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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. N. Shanbhag
D. N. Shanbhag
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Sheffield University, Sheffield
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Recently Wang (5) has given some results concerning characterizations of Poisson, normal, gamma, binomial and negative binomial distributions. We shall show here that these results are incorrect and also attempt to rectify them.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 73 , Issue 3 , May 1973 , pp. 473 - 475
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1973

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