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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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457
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Computing
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| Abstract - #307508 |
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Title:
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A New Subfamily of the Mirror-Exponential Distribution
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Author(s):
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Guillermina Jasso*+
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Companies:
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New York University
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Address:
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295 Lafayette Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10012-9605,
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Keywords:
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standard exponential ;
mirror-exponential ;
social status ;
income distribution ;
income inequality
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Abstract:
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This paper describes a new subfamily of the mirror-exponential distribution introduced by Jasso and Kotz (2007). The mirror-exponential is based on the standard exponential and arises naturally in the study of social status; its support is the entire positive half-line. In the new subfamily, called the shifted mirror-exponential, the lower extreme value shifts upward to a positive number, denoted a. The paper describes properties of the new subfamily and presents associated formulas. Potential applications are discussed, including the possibility of using the shifted mirror-exponential to model the income distribution.
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