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This paper gives some results on calculation of probabilities and moments of the discrete distributions of orderk. Further, a new distribution of orderk, which is called the logarithmic series distribution of orderk, is investigated. Finally, we discuss the meaning of theorder of the distributions.
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Aki, S., Kuboki, H. & Hirano, K. On discrete distributions of orderk . Ann Inst Stat Math 36, 431–440 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02481981
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