Closed form summation for classical distributions: variations on a theme of de Moivre
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Publication:1596024
DOI10.1214/ss/1177011699zbMath0955.60500MaRDI QIDQ1596024
Persi Diaconis, Sandy L. Zabell
Publication date: 7 February 2001
Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/ss/1177011699
62E15: Exact distribution theory in statistics
60E05: Probability distributions: general theory
01A50: History of mathematics in the 18th century
60-03: History of probability theory
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