On the unimodality of high convolutions of discrete distributions

DOI10.1214/AOP/1176993082zbMath0561.60021OpenAlexW2010216541MaRDI QIDQ2266513

L. Bruce Richmond, Andrew M. Odlyzko

Publication date: 1985

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176993082

zbMATH Keywords

unimodalstrongly unimodaldistributions concentrated on the integers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Combinatorial probability (60C05)

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