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Limit theorems for sums ofindependent random variables v. Complete descriptions of bifree stability and fullness of planar probability distributions are also set down. The first part, classicaltype limit theorems for sums ofindependent random variables v. This book is devoted to limit theorems and probability inequalities for sums of independent random variables. Introduction and preliminaries probability theory is motivated by the idea, that the unknown probability p of an event a is approximately equal to r n, if n trials result in r realisation of the. Oct 24, 2010 by using doobs martingale convergence theorem, this paper presents a class of strong limit theorems for arbitrary stochastic sequence. The distribution of the volume of a random simplex generated by one of the four models is more involved and can be derived from theorem2.
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