A NOTE ON LINNIK DISTRIBUTION

被引:64
作者
DEVROYE, L
机构
[1] School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal
关键词
Linnik's distribution; properties of distributions; random variate generation; symmetric stable distribution; unimodality;
D O I
10.1016/0167-7152(90)90136-U
中图分类号
O21 [概率论与数理统计]; C8 [统计学];
学科分类号
020208 [统计学]; 070103 [概率论与数理统计]; 0714 [统计学];
摘要
We provide a short proof of the validity and unimodality of Linnik's characteristic function 1/(1 + | t |α), 0 < α ≤ 2, by noting that it corresponds to the distribution of SαV 1 α, where Sα is a symmetric stable random variable with parameter α, and V is an independent exponential random variable. © 1990.
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