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Statistics
A Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics
Volume 20, 1989 - Issue 3
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Bounds on the mean of the maximum of a number of normal random variables

Pages 475-481 | Received 01 Mar 1986, Published online: 27 Jun 2007

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