Let Xi's be independent and identically distributed Poisson random variables for 1 ≤ i ≤ n....

Let X_i's be independent and identically distributed Poisson random variables for 1 ≤ i ≤ n. Derive the distribution for the summation of X_i from 1 to n. (Without using MGF)

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