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The use of a ballot theorem in order statistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Lajos Takács
Lajos Takács*
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Columbia University, New York
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The following generalization of the classical ballot theorem has many possible applications in order statistics.

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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , December 1964 , pp. 389 - 392
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