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@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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