Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Sep., 2004), pp. 802-815 (14 pages) We demonstrate that the residual lifetime distribution of a compound geometric distribution convoluted with another ...

Let $F_{\alpha,\lambda}$ be the distribution with Linnik's characteristic function $\phi (t)=1/(1+\lambda |t|^{\alpha})$, where λ > 0 and α ε (0, 2]. In this paper ...