A characterization of the generalized Birnbaum-Saunders distribution

The author is indebted to the Associate Editor and to the referees for valuable suggestions that helped to improve the paper. The research of the author was partially supported by the Portuguese Funds from the “Funda¸c˜ao para a Ciˆencia e a Tecnologia”, through the Project PEstOE/MAT/UI0013/2014.

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