Boundedly Complete Families Which are Not Complete.
This paper deals with conditions of compatibility of a system of copulas and with bounds of general Fréchet classes. Algebraic search for the bounds is interpreted as a solution to a linear system of Diophantine equations. Classical analytical specification of the bounds is described.
Exponential distributions are characterized by distributional properties of generalized order statistics. These characterizations include known results for ordinary order statistics and record values as particular cases.
Two characterizations of the exponential distribution among distributions with support the nonnegative real axis are presented. The characterizations are based on certain properties of the characteristic function of the exponential random variable. Counterexamples concerning more general possible versions of the characterizations are given.
In this paper we give a characterization of the multivariate normal distribution through the conditional distributions in the most general case, which include the singular distribution.
For a random vector X with a fixed distribution μ we construct a class of distributions ℳ(μ) = μ∘λ: λ ∈ , which is the class of all distributions of random vectors XΘ, where Θ is independent of X and has distribution λ. The problem is to characterize the distributions μ for which ℳ(μ) is closed under convolution. This is equivalent to the characterization of the random vectors X such that for all random variables Θ₁, Θ₂ independent of X, X’ there exists a random variable Θ independent of X such...
The class of componentwise concave copulas is considered, with particular emphasis on its closure under some constructions of copulas (e.g., ordinal sum) and its relations with other classes of copulas characterized by some notions of concavity and/or convexity. Then, a sharp upper bound is given for the -measure of non-exchangeability for copulas belonging to this class.
We present conditions sufficient for the weak convergence to a compound Poisson distribution of the distributions of the kth order statistics for extremes of moving minima in arrays of independent random variables.
For a stochastic process with state space some Polish space, this paper gives sufficient conditions on the initial and conditional distributions for the joint law to satisfy Gaussian concentration inequalities and transportation inequalities. In the case of the Euclidean space , there are sufficient conditions for the joint law to satisfy a logarithmic Sobolev inequality. In several cases, the constants obtained are of optimal order of growth with respect to the number of random variables, or are...
Conditions for bimodality of mixtures of two unimodal distributions are investigated in some special cases. Based on general characterizations, explicit criteria for the parameters are derived for mixtures of two Cauchy, logistic, Student, gamma, log-normal, Gumbel and other distributions.