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Teor. Veroyatnost. i Primenen., 2005 Volume 50, Issue 2, Pages 404–408 (Mi tvp119)

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A limit property of the geometric distribution

J. Macutek

Comenius University

Abstract: Let random variables $X^{\ast}$, $X$ have discrete distributions on the nonnegative integers and let
$$ \mathbf{P}\{X=k\}=c\sum^{\infty}_{j=k}\mathbf{P}\{X^{\ast}=j\},\qquad k=0,1,2,\dots, $$
with $c$ a proper constant. Repeated summations of this type are investigated. The limit distribution is geometric for a wide class of parent distributions.

Keywords: discrete distributions, partial-sums distributions, geometric distribution.

Received: 21.12.2001

Language: English

DOI: 10.4213/tvp119


 English version:
Theory of Probability and its Applications, 2006, 50:2, 316–319

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