On the sums of compound negative binomial and gamma random variables

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 272-283

  Vellaisamy, P ^a   Upadhye, N S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Compound negative binomial distribution; Compound poisson distribution; Convolution; Poisson process; Random parameter representation; Sums of gamma random variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 64249148789     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1238592129     Document Type: Article

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