Almost sure limit theorems for the St. Petersburg game

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-30

  Berkes, István ^a   Csáki, Endre ^a   Csörgo, Sándor ^b,c  

^a ALFRÉD RÉNYI INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Almost sure limit theorems; Asymptotic distributions; Primary 60F15; Secondary 60F05; St. Petersburg game

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041091187     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(99)00037-1     Document Type: Article

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