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Ecole d’Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XI — 1981

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Millar, P.W. (1983). The minimax principle in asymptotic statistical theory. In: Ecole d’Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XI — 1981. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 976. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0067986

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