1. Definition:
Remove the restriction that two or more customers cannot arrive at the same time, (i.e., remove orderliness property)
Let be a Poisson Process with rate , and let be the i.i.d random variable, then is a compound Poisson process
Example #1: Buses arrive according to a Poisson process. Let be the number of people on bus i, and let be the total number of people arriving by time t.
Example #2: Insurance claims arrive according to a Poisson process. Let be the size of the claim (in dollars), and let be the total amount due to all claims by time t.
2. Expectation:
Since , i.e.,
So
3. Variance:
var[X(t)] = var[E[X(t)|N(t)]] + E[var[X(t)|N(t)]]