Random variables with maximum sums

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1 September 1982

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Advances in Applied Probability

Vol. 14 (3) , 623-632
https://doi.org/10.2307/1426677

Abstract

Motivated by a problem in PERT networks we consider the question of construction of random variables with maximum sums when the marginals are fixed.

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