I'm interested in relationships among distributions. Like 'Sum of exponential random variables is a gamma random variable. Certain conditional distribution is another distribution etc.' I searched wikipedia and google but there are just summaries of them, not specifically proved or explained. I want to know about distribution's relationships and detailed proof or explanation. Either web sites or books would be OK.
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5What about Page 47 of http://www.math.wm.edu/~leemis/2008amstat.pdf ? – Henry Sep 14 '16 at 08:01
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5with an almost interactive version at http://www.math.wm.edu/~leemis/chart/UDR/UDR.html – Henry Sep 14 '16 at 08:12
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Thank you for your answer, but i already read that and there are no specific explanation or proofs... i can't fully understand relationships among distributions by given summaries... so sad. – C.Hawk Sep 14 '16 at 08:17
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Related: Comprehensive list of distributions?; Reference with distributions with various properties – Silverfish Sep 14 '16 at 12:18
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Those books are massive references on all connections between distributions:
N.L. Johnson, S. Kotz, & N. Balakrishnan (1994) Continuous Univariate Distributions, Vol. 1. J. Wiley
N.L. Johnson, S. Kotz, & N. Balakrishnan (1995) Continuous Univariate Distributions, Vol. 2. J. Wiley
N.L. Johnson, S. Kotz, & A.W. Kemp (1993) Univariate Discrete Distributions. J. Wiley
that cover all the links found on the Wikipedia graph. If not all possible relationships, of course!
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Check the following papers:
Leemis, L. M. (1986). Relationships among common univariate distributions. The American Statistician, 40(2), 143-146.
Leemis, L. M., & McQueston, J. T. (2008). Univariate distribution relationships. The American Statistician, 62(1), 45-53.
You can find such information also in Wikipedia articles about probability distributions since in most cases they have Related distributions section that describes such relations.
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