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On the joint distribution of the number of upper and lower records and the number of inversions in a random sequence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

W. Katzenbeisser*
Affiliation:
Institute of Statistics, Vienna
*
Postal address: Institut für Statistik der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, A-1090 Wien, Augasse 2-6, Austria.
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1990 

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