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A non-negative continuous probability distribution indexed by two strictly positive parameters.

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Question regarding the distribution of sum of random variables

Your book is wrong. The easy way to see this is that the support of $gamma(n, \theta + a)$ is $(0, \infty)$ while $\sum X_i \geq na$. Instead, the sum should have the same distribution as a $na + Y$ …
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