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Research supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation under grants 1 R01-GM-27976 and NSF-MCS-79-05811
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Lai, T.L., Robbins, H. Consistency and asymptotic efficiency of slope estimates in stochastic approximation schemes. Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw. Gebiete 56, 329–360 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00536178
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