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arxiv: 1708.03789 · v2 · pith:QJLD3Y4Qnew · submitted 2017-08-12 · 🧮 math.PR

The medians for exponential families and the normal law

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Let $P$ a probability on the real line generating a natural exponential family $(P_t)_{t\in \R}$. We show that $t$ is a median of $P_t$ for all $t$ only if $P$ is the standard Gaussian law $N(0.1).$ The proof is based on the Choquet Deny equation.

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