The Concepts of Pseudo Compound Poisson and Partition Representations in Discrete Probability

The mathematical/statistical concepts of pseudo compound Poisson and partition representations in discrete probability are reviewed and clarified. A combinatorial interpretation of the convolution of geometric distributions in terms of a variant of Newton’s identities is obtained. The practical use...

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Main Author: Werner Hürlimann
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:Journal of Probability and Statistics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/189596
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title The Concepts of Pseudo Compound Poisson and Partition Representations in Discrete Probability
title_full The Concepts of Pseudo Compound Poisson and Partition Representations in Discrete Probability
title_fullStr The Concepts of Pseudo Compound Poisson and Partition Representations in Discrete Probability
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