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Random Normalization and Thinning for Discrete Random Variables

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25 August 2022

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29 August 2022

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Abstract
Different variants of thinning for discrete random variables are studied. The thinning procedure allows to introduce an analog of scale parameter for positive integer-valued random variables. Sufficient and necessary conditions for the existence of such a scale are given.
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