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This chapter and Chapters 4–7, which treat generalized Gamma convolutions (GGC), form the central body of this work. The class of GGC’s was introduced by 0. Thorin in 1977 as a useful tool for proving ID of particular distributions. This class of distributions, in honor of Thorin often called the ℐ-class, also has its own interest. It is the smallest class of distributions on ℝ+ that contains the Gamma distributions and is closed with respect to convolution and weak limits. The ℐ-class is surprisingly rich, and it has a remarkable structure as will be seen. It should be added that Thorin’s original name for a GGC was “generalized Г-convolution” which is more clear but somewhat hard to abbreviate.
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Bondesson, L. (1992). Generalized Gamma Convolutions. In: Generalized Gamma Convolutions and Related Classes of Distributions and Densities. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 76. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2948-3_3
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