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If the sum of two independent random variables is gamma distributed does this imply that the individual random variables are also gamma distributed. I suspect that the answer is no, but I do not know how to construct a counter-example. [The convolution of two gamma distributions with the same scale parameter is also a gamma distribution, but I am dealing with the converse.]

If this can be answered in relation toassuming that the convolution is the exponential distribution f(x) = exp(-x) that would be sufficient for my purposes.

Any help with this would be much appreciated.

If the sum of two independent random variables is gamma distributed does this imply that the individual random variables are also gamma distributed. I suspect that the answer is no, but I do not know how to construct a counter-example. [The convolution of two gamma distributions with the same scale parameter is also a gamma distribution, but I am dealing with the converse.]

If this can be answered in relation to the exponential distribution f(x) = exp(-x) that would be sufficient for my purposes.

Any help with this would be much appreciated.

If the sum of two independent random variables is gamma distributed does this imply that the individual random variables are also gamma distributed. I suspect that the answer is no, but I do not know how to construct a counter-example. [The convolution of two gamma distributions with the same scale parameter is also a gamma distribution, but I am dealing with the converse.]

If this can be answered assuming that the convolution is the exponential distribution f(x) = exp(-x) that would be sufficient for my purposes.

Any help with this would be much appreciated.

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Deconvolution of gamma distributions

If the sum of two independent random variables is gamma distributed does this imply that the individual random variables are also gamma distributed. I suspect that the answer is no, but I do not know how to construct a counter-example. [The convolution of two gamma distributions with the same scale parameter is also a gamma distribution, but I am dealing with the converse.]

If this can be answered in relation to the exponential distribution f(x) = exp(-x) that would be sufficient for my purposes.

Any help with this would be much appreciated.