On binomial distributions of order k (Q1099475)

\textit{A. N. Philippou}, \textit{C. Georghiou} and the reviewer [ibid. 1, 171- 175 (1983; Zbl 0517.60010)] introduced the geometric and negative binomial distributions of order k. The binomial distribution of order k was introduced and studied independently by \textit{K. Hirano} [Fibonacci numbers and their applications, Pap. 1st Int. Conf., Patras/Greece 1984, Math. Appl., D. Reidel Publ. Co. 28, 43-53 (1986; Zbl 0601.62023)] and by \textit{A. N. Philippou} and \textit{F. S. Makri} [Stat. Probab. Lett. 4, 211- 215 (1986; Zbl 0594.62013)]. In this paper a new binomial distribution of order k is derived and studied. It is defined as the distribution of the rv \[ M_ n^{(k)}=\sum^{n-k+1}_{i=1}\prod^{i+k-1}_{j=1}X_ j, \] where \(X_ 1,X_ 2,...,X_ n\) is a random sample of size n drawn on a Bernoulli rv X. The mean, the variance and the moment generating function of this distribution are obtained.