On Characterization of Some Distributions by Truncation Properties
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This article draws attention to some elementary results—that belong to the folklore of actuarial science—on the characterization of a reliability function S(x) by the “life expectancy” ℓy at age y and other expectations and moments of the residual life of a y survivor, whether the residual life is measured in the usual scale of time or a new scale. These provide closed-form expressions for models based on life expectancy or other truncated or generalized moments hypotheses.…