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I consider it as a great honour to be called upon to deliver the Linnik Memorial Lecture at the conference on Characterization of Statistical Distributions and its Applications to Theoretical Statistics and Applied Fields. I had the pleasure of collaborating with Academician Linnik in starting some lines of research on characterization of probability distributions, which led to the publication of a full length monograph on the subject by Kagan, Linnik and Rao [3], which will be referred to as KLR in this paper.
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Rao, C.R. (1975). Some Problems in the Characterization of the Multivariate Normal Distribution. In: Patil, G.P., Kotz, S., Ord, J.K. (eds) A Modern Course on Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1848-7_1
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