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On an inequality of Karlin and Rinott concerning weighted sums of i.i.d. random variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Yaming Yu
Yaming Yu*
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-1250, USA. Email address: yamingy@ics.uci.edu
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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 1223 - 1226
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