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BibTeX entry
@Article{Marsaglia:1975:NLM,
author = "George Marsaglia and Alberto Tubilla",
title = "A Note on the ``Lack of Memory'' Property of the
Exponential Distribution",
journal = j-ANN-PROBAB,
volume = "3",
number = "2",
pages = "353--354",
month = apr,
year = "1975",
CODEN = "APBYAE",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176996406",
ISSN = "0091-1798 (print), 2168-894X (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0091-1798",
MRclass = "62E10",
MRnumber = "51 \#2073",
MRreviewer = "Ramesh C. Gupta",
bibdate = "Sun Apr 20 10:44:17 MDT 2014",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/m/marsaglia-george.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/annprobab1970.bib;
MathSciNet database",
URL = "http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1176996406",
ZMnumber = "0336.60017",
abstract = "The exponential distribution is often characterized as
the only distribution with lack of memory. This note
points out a stronger result: the exponential is the
only distribution that is occasionally forgetful.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "Annals of Probability",
journal-URL = "http://projecteuclid.org/all/euclid.aop",
ZMclass = "*60E05 General theory of probability distributions
62E10 Structure theory of statistical distributions",
}
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