Limit Distributions for Sums of Independent Random Variables.

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Year: 1955
Type: article
Volume: 50
Issue: 272
Pages: 1343-1343
Citations: 2230
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                                    Wassily Hoeffding, 
                                
                                    Б. В. Гнеденко, 
                                
                                    A. N. Kolmogorov
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (1955). 
                            Limit Distributions for Sums of Independent Random Variables.. 
                            Journal of the American Statistical Association
                            , 50
                            (272)
                            , 1343-1343.
                            https://doi.org/10.2307/2281234
                        

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DOI: 10.2307/2281234