THE UNIFORM MIXTURE OF GENERALIZED ARC-SINE DISTRIBUTIONS

  • JONES M.C. (Department of Statistics, The Open University, Walton Hall)
  • Published : 2005.03.01

Abstract

A single, tractable, special case of the problem of continuous mixtures of beta distributions over their parameters is considered. This is the uniform mixture of generalized arc-sine distributions which, curiously, turns out to be linked by transformation to the Cauchy distribution.

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