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The research was supported by Grant MCS 76-04964 from the National Science Foundation and a research fellowship from the Technological University at Eindhoven
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Wolfe, S.J. On the unimodality of infinitely divisible distribution functions. Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw Gebiete 45, 329–335 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00537541
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