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On Sums of Overlapping Products of Independent Bernoulli Random Variables

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We find the exact distribution of an arbitrary remainder of an infinite sum of overlapping products of a sequence of independent Bernoulli random variables.

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  1. Bolyai Institute, Szeged University, Hungary

    S. Csörgö

  2. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    W. B. Wu

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Csörgö, S., Wu, W.B. On Sums of Overlapping Products of Independent Bernoulli Random Variables. Ukrainian Mathematical Journal 52, 1496–1503 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010344505995

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