An Inequality for Probabilities

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DOI10.2307/2035487zbMath0154.19401OpenAlexW4244961743MaRDI QIDQ5534673

David Sankoff, Donald A. Dawson

Publication date: 1967

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2035487




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