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Author(s): Valentin V. Petrov
Title: Limit theorems of probability theory: Sequences of independent random variables
Additional book information: Oxford Studies in Probability, vol. 4, Oxford Science Publications, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995, ix + 292 pp., $90.00, ISBN 0-19-853499-X

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MSC (1991): Primary 60F05, 60F10
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-97-00700-3
PII: S 0273-0979(97)00700-3
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society

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