Some further results in infinite divisibility
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- Vol. 82 (2) , 289-295
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100053925
Abstract
Goldie (2), Steutel (8, 9), Kelker (4), Keilson and Steutel (3) and several others have studied the mixtures of certain distributions which are infinitely divisible. Recently Shanbhag and Sreehari (7) have proved that if Z is exponential with unit parameter and for 0 < α < 1, if Yx is a positive stable random variable with , t ≥ 0 and independent of Z, then for every 0 < α < 1 Using this result, they have obtained several interesting results concerning stable random variables including some extensions of the results of the above authors. More recently, Williams (11) has used the same approach to show that if , where n is a positive integer ≥ 2, then is distributed as the product of n − 1 independent gamma random variables with index parameters α, 2α, …, (n − 1) α. Prior to these investigations, Zolotarev (12) had studied the problems of M-divisibility of stable laws.Keywords
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