• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.153-160
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• 2008

A size-biased Poisson distribution is defined. Its characterization by using a recurrence relation for first order negative moment of the distribution is obtained. Different estimation methods for the parameter of the model are also discussed. R-Software has been used for making a comparison among the three different estimation methods.