• DocumentCode
    1174919
  • Title

    A note on Hansmann´s 1934 family of distributions

  • Author

    Pawula, R.F. ; Rice, S.O.

  • Author_Institution
    Random Applications, Montrose, CO, USA
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1989
  • fDate
    7/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    910
  • Lastpage
    911
  • Abstract
    The family of distributions introduced by G.H. Hansmann in 1934 is considered. Apparently, it has gone unnoticed for over fifty years that there is a major error in Hansmann´s work and that his solutions are incomplete in some cases. It is shown how to complete them and the necessity of doing so is demonstrated by means of two examples
  • Keywords
    information theory; probability; statistical analysis; Hansmann distributions; frequency distributions; information theory; probability density function; Differential equations; Filtering; Filters; Helium; Polynomials; Signal processing; Telegraphy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.32174
  • Filename
    32174