Limit theorems for the inductive mean on metric trees

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1136-1149

  Basrak, Bojan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Convergence in distribution; Inductive mean; Limit theorem; Lindley process; Metric tree

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054759859     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1294170525     Document Type: Article

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