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General moment functions and a density version of the central limit theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Walter L. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sujit K. Basu
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Extract

1. Introduction. We shall employ the customary abbreviations: p.d.f. for probability density function; d.f. for distribution function; c.f. for characteristic function.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1974

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