Total Positivity, Absorption Probabilities and Applications

DOI10.2307/1993667zbMath0122.13702OpenAlexW4246913012MaRDI QIDQ5733930

Samuel Karlin

Publication date: 1964

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1993667

zbMATH Keywords

probability theory

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