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The length of an island

This is hard to compute, even in the constant length clone case. Hall [7] derived the Laplace-Stieltjes transform of the distribution of the length of an island, and got

See Hall's book for the details of the proof.



Simon Cawley
Thu Apr 30 03:30:28 PDT 1998