Summary The intervened Poisson distribution (IPD) of Shanmugam (Biometrics 41:1025–1029, <CitationRef CitationID="CR19">1985</CitationRef>) has been found suitable for some rare event situations where some intervention arises. The main drawback of IPD is that it is under-dispersed and appropriate for single intervention situation....</citationref>

In this paper we develop an order k version of the alternative hyper-Poisson distribution of Kumar and Nair (Statistica, 2012) and study some of its important properties such as its probability mass function, first moment, variance and recurrence relations for its probabilities, raw moments and...