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Translated from Issledovaniya po Prikladnoi Matematike, No. 10, pp. 13–53, 1984.
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Volodin, I.N. Guaranteed statistical inference procedures (determination of the optimal sample size). J Math Sci 44, 568–600 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01095166
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