The distribution of the sum of independent gamma random variables

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics - Tập 37 - Trang 541-544 - 1985
P. G. Moschopoulos1
1The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, USA

Tóm tắt

The distribution of the sum ofn independent gamma variates with different parameters is expressed as a single gamma-series whose coefficients are computed by simple recursive relations.

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