Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...

Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1994), pp. 743-756 (14 pages) Exponential bounds are derived for the tail probabilities of various compound distributions, generalizing the ...

We investigate compound distributions - for example, compound mixed Poisson distributions - in the case where the summands, the mixing distribution or the number of summands are subexponential. It is ...