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A characterization of gamma, Meixner hypergeometric and negative binomial distributions based on canonical measures

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In this paper, we show that gamma, Meixner hypergeometric and negative binomial distributions can be characterized by their canonical measures.

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Lai, C.D. A characterization of gamma, Meixner hypergeometric and negative binomial distributions based on canonical measures. Ann Inst Stat Math 34, 359–363 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02481035

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