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Author: 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., ISBN 0-19-853499-X, $90.00$

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