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Kaunas Polytechnic Institute. Translated from Litovskii Matematicheskii Sbornik (Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys), Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 219–232, April–June, 1990.
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Aksomaitis, A. Convergence of distributions of extremal independent random variables. Lith Math J 30, 87–96 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00970835
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