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A class of infinitely divisible random variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Charles Goldie
Charles Goldie
Affiliation:
Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge
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The question has arisen in the theory of queues whether the product of two independent exponentially distributed random variables is infinitely divisible. In this note it is proved that the product of any non-negative random variable with an independent exponentially distributed variable is infinitely divisible. Such random variables are members of a wider class of infinitely divisible random variables, which will be exhibited first.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 63 , Issue 4 , October 1967 , pp. 1141 - 1143
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1967

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