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by javitury 1410 days ago
Thanks for the suggestions but unfortunately the poisson-binomial distribution [1] is not a simple combination of those two distributions. It requires of specialized packages like PoissonBinomial[2] in R.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_binomial_distribution

[2]https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/PoissonBinomial/inde...

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Ahh my apologies. Shows my lack of domain knowledge.

Looking at some child comments it looks like there have been attempts to get it added to scipy since 2016.