Transmuted distributions and extrema of random number of variables

Authors

  • Tomasz J Kozubowski Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Nevada, Reno
  • Krzysztof Podgórski Department of Statistics School of Economics and Management Lund University

Keywords:

Distribution theory, Extremes, Marschall-Olkin generalized distribution, Quadratic transmutation map, Random minimum, Sibuya distribution, Stochastic representation

Abstract

Recent years have seen an increased interest in the transmuted probability models,which arise from transforming a “base” distribution into its generalized counterpart. While many
standard probability distributions were generalized throughout this simple construction, the concept lacked deeper theoretical interpretation. This note demonstrates that the scheme is more
than just a simple trick to obtain a new cumulative distribution function. We show that the transmuted distributions can be viewed as the distribution of maxima (or minima) of a random number N of independent and identically distributed variables with the base distribution, where N has a Bernoulli distribution shifted up by one. Consequently, the transmuted models are, in fact, only a special case of extremal distributions defined through a more general N .

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Working Papers in Statistics