On the lengths of the pieces of a stick broken at random

DOI10.2307/3212956zbMath0435.60016OpenAlexW2329051191MaRDI QIDQ3875002

Lars Holst

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3212956

zbMATH Keywords

spacingsuniform distributionlimit theoremsexponential distribution covering a circle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30)

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