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On stopping times of sequential estimations of the mean of a log-normal distribution

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Nagao, H. On stopping times of sequential estimations of the mean of a log-normal distribution. Ann Inst Stat Math 32, 369–375 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02480341

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