Characterization of the cubic exponential families by orthogonality of polynomials

This paper introduces a notion of 2-orthogonality for a sequence of polynomials to give extended versions of the Meixner and Feinsilver characterization results based on orthogonal polynomials. These new versions subsume the Letac-Mora characterization of the real natural exponential families having cubic variance function.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117904000000522 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org

Singular Riesz measures on symmetric cones

In this paper, we give an explicitdescription of a class of positive measures on symmetric conesdefined by their Laplace transforms in the framework of the Rieszintegrals. This work is motivated by the importance of thesemeasures in probability theory and statistics sincethey represent a generalization of the measures generating the famous Wishart distributions

On Cauchy-Stieltjes Kernel Families

We explore properties of Cauchy-Stieltjes families that have no counterpart in exponential families. We relate the variance function of the iterated Cauchy-Stieltjes family to the pseudo-variance function of the initial Cauchy-Stieltjes family. We also investigate when the domain of means can be extended beyond the "natural domain"