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Teor. Veroyatnost. i Primenen., 1956 Volume 1, Issue 2, Pages 283–288 (Mi tvp5002)

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On the Composition of Unimodal Distributions

I. A. Ibragimov

Leningrad

Abstract: A distribution function is called strong unimodal if its composition with any unimodal distribution function is unimodal.
The following theorem is proved:
For a proper unimodal distribution $F(x)$ to be strong unimodal, it is necessary and sufficient that the function $F(x)$ be continuous, and the function log $F'(x)$ be concave at a set of points where neither the right nor the left derivative of the function $F(x)$ is equal to zero.

Received: 20.01.1956


 English version:
Theory of Probability and its Applications, 1956, 1:2, 255–260


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