A characterisation of scale mixtures of the uniform distribution

Thomas Fung; Eugene Seneta

doi:10.1016/j.spl.2008.04.015

A characterisation of scale mixtures of the uniform distribution

Thomas Fung, Eugene Seneta^*

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Certain univariate symmetric distributions are representable as scale mixtures of the uniform distribution (SMU). We give a characterisation theorem for the more general multivariate spherical distributions, and illustrate by application to the multivariate exponential power distribution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2883-2888
Number of pages	6
Journal	Statistics and Probability Letters
Volume	78
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2008.04.015
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2008
Externally published	Yes

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