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ON THE UNIMODALITY OF GENERALIZED POISSON DISTRIBUTION
Author(s) -
Consul P.C.,
Famoye F.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
statistica neerlandica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1467-9574
pISSN - 0039-0402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9574.1986.tb01197.x
Subject(s) - unimodality , mathematics , poisson distribution , compound poisson distribution , distribution (mathematics) , property (philosophy) , combinatorics , statistics , poisson regression , mathematical analysis , population , philosophy , demography , epistemology , sociology
. The unimodality property is very important in many statistical problems. In this paper, it is shown that the generalized Poisson distribution is unimodal. Upper and lower bounds to the mode are given.