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Bulletin of Computational Applied Mathematics (Bull CompAMa)

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The exponential distribution as the sum of discontinuous distributions

José Luis Palacios

We show that for any natural number $n$, an exponential distribution can be written as the sum of $n$ discontinuous variables and another exponential distribution, all of them independent.

Keywords: infinitely decomposable; infinitely divisible.

Cite this paper:

Palacios J.L., The exponential distribution as the sum of discontinuous distributions.

Bull. Comput. Appl. Math. (Bull CompAMa),

Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan-Jun, pp.7-10, 2013