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A Probabilistic Approach to the Convolution Transform
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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The inversion and the characterization of the convolution transform is derived via the concept of unimodality introduced by Khintchine (1938). This method yields simple and intuitively appealing proofs.
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