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Coin tossing and Laplace inversion

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An analysis of exchangeable sequences of coin tossings leads to inversion formulae for Laplace transforms of probability measures.

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Gupta, J.C. Coin tossing and Laplace inversion. Proc Math Sci 110, 315–322 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02878686

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