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Not all discrete distributions are lattice distributions. A lattice distribution F, for some h > 0, is concentrated on a set \(K =\{ a + hk,\ k \in \mathbb{Z}\}\). For convenience, it is usually assumed that h is the maximal common divisor of the lattice points.
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Čekanavičius, V. (2016). Discrete Non-lattice Approximations. In: Approximation Methods in Probability Theory. Universitext. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34072-2_7
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