{"title":"On the non-existence of a discrete power series distribution with a constant coefficient of variation","authors":"Rahul Bhattacharya , Taranga Mukherjee","doi":"10.1016/j.exco.2023.100104","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Non-existence of distributions with constant coefficient of variation(CV) is investigated within the discrete Power Series and Modified Power Series families of distributions. The development is used to revisit and comment on the problem of existence of a better but biased estimator.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100517,"journal":{"name":"Examples and Counterexamples","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Examples and Counterexamples","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666657X2300006X","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Non-existence of distributions with constant coefficient of variation(CV) is investigated within the discrete Power Series and Modified Power Series families of distributions. The development is used to revisit and comment on the problem of existence of a better but biased estimator.