A simple proof of Feller's characterization of the compound Poisson distributions

DOI10.1016/0167-6687(87)90008-4zbMath0614.62010OpenAlexW2053808587MaRDI QIDQ1819844

A. Valderrama Ospina, Hans U. Gerber

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Insurance Mathematics \& Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-6687(87)90008-4

zbMATH Keywords

infinitely divisiblecompound Poissoncharacterizationrecursive formulasFeller's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinitely divisible distributions; stable distributions (60E07) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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