For independent random variables, their sum has the product of their probability generating functions:
(1)
Comparing polynomial coefficients identifies a binomial distribution with parameters :
(2)
and the probability is zero at all other values. The common success probability is essential to this binomial form; independent binomial counts with different probabilities do not in general add to a binomial count.

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