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On characterizations of unimodality of discrete distributions

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  1. M. S. University of Baroda, Baroda, India

    S. W. Dharmadhikari & Kumar Jogdeo

  2. University of Illinois, Illinois, USA

    S. W. Dharmadhikari & Kumar Jogdeo

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Research partially supported by NSF GP 23825.

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Dharmadhikari, S.W., Jogdeo, K. On characterizations of unimodality of discrete distributions. Ann Inst Stat Math 28, 9–18 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02504726

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