Krzysztof Podgórski
Prefekt Statistiska institutionen, Professor
A generalized Sibuya distribution
Författare
Summary, in English
The Sibuya distribution arises as the distribution of the waiting time for the first success in Bernoulli trials, where the probabilities of success are inversely proportional to the number of a trial. We study a generalization that can be viewed as the distribution of the excess random variable (Formula presented.) given (Formula presented.), where N has the Sibuya distribution and k is an integer. We summarize basic facts regarding this distribution and provide several new results and characterizations, shedding more light on its origin and possible applications. In particular, we emphasize the role Sibuya distribution plays in the extreme value theory and point out its invariance property with respect to random thinning operation.
Avdelning/ar
- Statistiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2018
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
855-887
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Volym
70
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Probability Theory and Statistics
Nyckelord
- Discrete Pareto distribution
- Distribution theory
- Extreme value theory
- Infinite divisibility
- Mixed Poisson process
- Power law
- Pure death process
- Records
- Yule distribution
- Zipf’s law
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0020-3157