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Title: Multivariate Compound Poisson Distributions and Infinite Divisibility
Author(s): SUNDT, B.
Journal: ASTIN Bulletin
Volume: 30    Issue: 2   Date: November 2000   
Pages: 305-308
DOI: 10.2143/AST.30.2.504637

Abstract :
In this note we give a lnultivariate extension of the proof of Ospina & Gerber (1987) of the result of Feller (1968) that a univariate distribution on the non-negative integers is infinitely divisible if and only if it can be expressed as a compound Poisson distribution.