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Branching and clustering models associated with the ‘lost-games distribution’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Adrienne W. Kemp
Affiliation:
The Queen's University of Belfast
C. D. Kemp
Affiliation:
The Queen's University of Belfast

Extract

We use Gurland's (1957) definition and notation for generalized distributions, i.e., given random variables Xi with probability generating functions gi(s), i = 1, 2, 3, if g3(s) = g1[g2(s)], we say that X3 is X1 generalized by X2 and write X3~ X1VX2.

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