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Vilnius University, Naugarduko 24, 2006 Vilnius, Lithuania. Published in Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 158–164, January–March, 1992.
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Vilimas, V. On limiting behavior of sums and maxima when tails are slowly varying. Lith Math J 32, 123–128 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00970980
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