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Analogues are proposed for the concepts of self-decomposability and stability for distributions on the nonnegative integers. It turns out that these "discrete self-decomposable" and "discrete stable" distributions have properties that are quite similar to those of their continuous counterparts.
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Steutel et al. (1979) studied this question.
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