International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 19 (1996), Issue 3, Pages 595-602
doi:10.1155/S0161171296000828
Characterizations of multinomial distributions based on conditional distributions
Khoan T. Dinh1
, Truc T. Nguyen2
and Yining Wang2
1U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington 20460, DC, USA
2Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green 43403-0221, OH, USA
Abstract
Several characterizations of the joint multinomial distribution of two discrete random vectors are derived assuming conditional multinomial distributions.