Compounding: An R package for computing continuous distributions obtained by compounding a continuous and a discrete distribution

Computational Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 977-992

  Nadarajah, Saralees ^a   Popović, Božidar V ^b   Ristić, Miroslav M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Statistical Office of the Republic of Montenegro   (Montenegro)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Compounding; Compounding by a discrete distribution; Zero truncated distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878600224     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: 16139658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-012-0336-y     Document Type: Article

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