On the equidistribution of sums of independent random variables
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- © Copyright 1953 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1953), 786-799
- MSC: Primary 60.0X
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1953-0056869-7
- MathSciNet review: 0056869