Accession Number:

AD0763714

Title:

Total Positivity Properties of Generating Functions.

Descriptive Note:

Statistical rept.,

Corporate Author:

FLORIDA STATE UNIV TALLAHASSEE DEPT OF STATISTICS

Personal Author(s):

• Abdel-Hameed,Mohamed
• Proschan,Frank

Report Date:

1973-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

8.0

Abstract:

Keilson 1972 obtained total positivity properties of order 2 for generating functions corresponding to real masses on the nonnegative integers. In this note, it is shown that similar total positivity properties actually hold for each positive integer order.

Descriptors:

• (*STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
• FUNCTIONS(MATHEMATICS))
• MATRICES(MATHEMATICS)
• INEQUALITIES
• THEOREMS

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE