, vol. 3, issue 3, pp. 130-133, 2012.
In this paper, two recurrence relations characterizing a certain class of distribution family are presented. The first one is a recurrence relation between conditional moments of ℎ(X) given X < y. The second is a relationship between the conditional momentsn and where Yk is the kth order statistic from a sample of size n. Finally the concept of conditional variance of ℎ(Yk) given Yk > t is used to characterize this family. Some results concerning Modified Weibull, Weibull, Rayleigh, exponential, Linear failure rate, 1st type Pearsonian distributions, Burr, Pareto, Power and uniform distributions are obtained as special cases. Keywords- Characterization, truncated moments, conditional variance, order statistics, recurrence relations, Modified Weibull, Linear failure rate, Pearson distribution of the first type, Burr, and Power distributions.