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Two dependent Poisson processes whose sum is still a Poisson process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Jean Jacod*
Affiliation:
Princeton University

Abstract

We show that there exists a pair of Poisson processes which are not stochastically independent, and whose sum is still a Poisson process.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1975 

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Footnotes

Research conducted while the author held a US-France exchange award from the National Science Foundation.

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