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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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Poisson processes

The question describes two independent sequences of $K$ iid Poisson variates. Let's use indexes $1,2$ to distinguish them, so that $X_1$ has parameter $\lambda_1$ and $X_2$ has parameter $\lambda_2$. …
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