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Some remarks on the renewal function of the uniform distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

U. Jensen*
Affiliation:
Universität Stuttgart-Hohenheim
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Postal address: Institut für Angewandte Mathematik und Statistik, Universität Hohenheim (110), Postfach 70 05 62, 7000 Stuttgart 70, W. Germany.
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Russell (1983) considers the distribution properties of N(a), the minimum value of n for which the sum Sn of n random variables, which are i.i.d. uniformly on (0, 1), exceeds the constant a, .

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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1984 

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