Estimating tails of probability distributions

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DOI10.1214/aos/1176350499zbMath0642.62022OpenAlexW2009169570MaRDI QIDQ1101159

Richard L. Smith

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176350499




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