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Short Communications
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
Citation:
J. Macutek, “A limit property of the geometric distribution”, Teor. Veroyatnost. i Primenen., 50:2 (2005), 404–408; Theory Probab. Appl., 50:2 (2006), 316–319
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tvp119https://doi.org/10.4213/tvp119 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tvp/v50/i2/p404
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