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A counterexample is any example or result that is the opposite of ones intuition or to commonly held beliefs. Derived from extensive teaching experience in paris, this second edition now includes over 100 exercises in probability. It is now a valuable resource for professional statisticians involved in industry, academic research and education. This condition, implying nonuniqueness, is expressed in terms of a normalized logarithmic integral of the density and has different forms in the hamburger moment problem for distributions on the whole real line and in the stieltjes.
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