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Author(s): Galen R. Shorack and Jon A. Wellner
Title: Empirical processes with applications to statistics
Additional book information: Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics, John Wiley and Sons, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore, 1986, xxvii + 938 pp., $59.95. ISBN 0-471-86725-X

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Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 189-200.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1987-15560-1
PII: S 0273-0979(1987)15560-1

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