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This article is reproduced from pages 127–138 inThe Craft of Probabilistic Modelling, A Collection of Personal Accounts, ed. J. Gani, published by Springer-Verlag, 1986, ISBN 0-387-96277-8.

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Prabhu, N.U. Probability modelling across the continents. Queueing Syst 24, 7–18 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01149076

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