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Kazuki Okamura School of General Education, Shinshu University

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Abstract

We give two new simple characterizations of the Cauchy distribution by using the Möbius and Mellin transforms. They also yield characterizations of the circular Cauchy distribution and the mixture Cauchy model.

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