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Generalized Negative Binomial Distributions

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We show that a wide variety of processes lead, in certain limit, to a simple generalization of the negative binomial distribution. Its properties are studied in detail and used to derive an important result in the theory of avalanches.

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    J. Betancort-Rijo

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Betancort-Rijo, J. Generalized Negative Binomial Distributions. Journal of Statistical Physics 98, 917–933 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018691912596

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