Compound Poisson Processes
A compound Poisson process with rate and jump size distribution G is a continuous-time stochastic process given by
where the sum is by convention equal to zero as long as N(t)=0. Here, is a Poisson process with rate, and are independent and identically distributed random variables, with distribution function G, which are also independent of
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