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On the distributions obtained by varying the number of trials in a binomial distribution

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Khatri, C.G. On the distributions obtained by varying the number of trials in a binomial distribution. Ann Inst Stat Math 13, 47–51 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02868858

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