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The multivariate Waring distribution and its application

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The multivariate Waring distribution is developed and investigated. A special case, the bivariate Waring distribution, is considered. It is shown that the distributions have some nice properties as multivariate distribution. Some applications to the distribution of scientific productivity are discussed.

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  1. Department of Management and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 201800, P. R. China

    Shi Shan & Lan Jiang

  2. China National Institute for Educational Research, Beijing, (, P. R. China

    Guohua Jiang

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Shan, S., Jiang, G. & Jiang, L. The multivariate Waring distribution and its application. Scientometrics 60, 523–535 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:SCIE.0000034392.65855.5c

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