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A Probability Distribution With No Memory
Author(s) -
Colwell D. J.,
Gillett J. R.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.1990.tb00120.x
Subject(s) - exponential distribution , property (philosophy) , mathematics , probability distribution , distribution (mathematics) , statistics , econometrics , computer science , mathematical analysis , epistemology , philosophy
Summary This article considers and then illustrates an apparent pardox associated with the exponential distribution, which is known as the “Memoryless Property”.