Rounding of continuous random variables and oscillatory asymptotics

Annals of Probability

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1807-1826

  Janson, Svante ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Characteristic function; Digital search tree; Gumbel distribution; Moments; Patricia trie; Random assignment; Sheppard's correction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845481641     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009117906000000232     Document Type: Article

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