On a Class of Problems Related to the Random Division of an Interval

• 1 June 1953
• journal article
• Published by Institute of Mathematical Statistics in The Annals of Mathematical Statistics
• Vol. 24  (2) , 239-253
• https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177729030

Abstract

Keywords

• CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTION
• RANDOM VARIABLE
• CONTOUR INTEGRATION
• STEEPEST DESCENT METHOD