Questions tagged [compound-distributions]
When a random variable is distributed according to some parameterized distribution, where the parameter itself is a random variable. Also known as a "mixture" distribution, but the term "mixture" also has other senses in statistics.
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Poisson Gamma Mixture = Negative Binomially Distributed?
This paper introduces a model called "Beta-Geometric / NBD" which models "repeat-buying behavior in settings where customer “dropout” is unobserved: It assumes that customers buy at a ...
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What is the distribution of a mixture of exponential distributions whose rate parameters follow a gamma distribution?
I want to know the theoretical distribution of a mixture of exponential distributions whose rate parameters are distributed according to a gamma distribution:
$$ y\sim\text{Exp}(\theta), \quad\text{...
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Compound Distributions --- Basic Techniques and Key General Results from First Principles
Could someone please point me to a source with notation, terminology, key results and basic techniques to approach compound distributions?
Definition
Compound probability distribution is the ...
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Compound Distribution --- Uniform Distribution with Normally Distributed Parameters
Could someone please point me to a source or suggest ways in which we can obtain the Distribution, Density Functions, Expected Value, etc. of a Uniform Distribution whose parameters are distributed ...
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What is the distribution of a Poisson variable, where the Poisson rate is Normal (or Binomial)?
What is the distribution of $X$ if
$$ X \sim \text{Poisson}(\lambda), \quad \text{where }\lambda \sim N(\mu,\sigma^2)$$
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$$ X \sim \text{Poisson} (\lambda), \quad \text{where }\lambda \sim ...
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Compounding a Gaussian distribution with variance distributed according to the absolute value of another Gaussian distribution
Have there been earlier descriptions of the following compound distribution?
Compounding a Gaussian distribution with variance distributed according to the absolute value or square of another ...
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Mean of a Poisson-Lognormal Distribution (PLN)
I would like to calculate the mean value of a PLN distribution,
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f(x;\mu,\sigma)=\frac{1}{x!\sigma\sqrt{2\pi}}\int_{0}^{\infty}\lambda_\ast^{x-1} e^{-\lambda_\ast} e^{-\frac{(log(\lambda_\ast-\mu)^2}...
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