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Let X be amount of losses in dollars and assume that X ~ Gamma(α, θ). Let...

Let X be amount of losses in dollars and assume that X ~ Gamma(α, θ). Let Y be the amount of losses in thousand of dollars, what is the distribution of Y?

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