On Extreme Stable Laws and Some Applications

This report has yet to be scanned by Contrails staff

Author(s): Eaton, Morris L.., Morris, Carl, Rubin, Herman
Corporate Author(s): RAND Corporation
Corporate Report Number: R-551-PR
Date of Publication: 1971-02
Pages: 24
Contract: F44620-67-C-0045
DoD Project: Project RAND
DoD Task:
Identifier: AD0720799

Abstract:
It is shown that the extreme stable laws have one-sided moment-generating functions with interesting mathematical forms. The fact that one of these forms, exp (cz log z), is a moment-generating function is used to establish two interesting statistical results: first, that exp (r log r) is a moment sequence for a density with decreasing failure rate, and secondly, that the likelihood ratio test for testing a simple null hypothesis in a multinomial distribution is admissible and Bayes.

Provenance: Borg-Warner

Other options for obtaining this report:

Via the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC):
A record for this report, and possibly a pdf download of the report, exists at DTIC

Via National Technical Report Library:
This report may be available for download from NTRL. Use the Title from this record to locate the item in DTIC Online

Indications of Public Availability
No digital image of an index entry indicating public availability is currently available
There has been no verification of an indication of public availability from an inside cover statement