The constancy of the conditional expectation of some appropriate functions of order statistics on some others, is used to characterize the geometric distribution among the discrete distributions.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Motivated by the question of the age in a branching population we try to recreate the past by looking back from the currently observed ...

The purpose of the course is to introduce the statistical methods that are critical in the performance analysis and selection of information systems and networks. It includes fundamental topics as ...