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The Skellam distribution is a discrete distribution that describes the difference between two independent Poisson distributions with possibly different parameters.

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Distribution that describes the difference between negative binomial distributed variables?

I don't know the name of this distribution but you can just derive it from the law of total probability. Suppose $X, Y$ each have negative binomial distributions with parameters $(r_{1}, p_{1})$ and $ …
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