Characteristic and generating functions. Vector formulation of random variables and their parameters. Mean square estimation and orthogonality principle. Criteria for estimators. Introduction to ...

Using a decomposition of the characteristic function of the logarithm of the product of independent generalized gamma-ratio random variables (r.v.'s), we obtain explicit expressions for both the ...

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