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Obituary: Joseph Leonard Doob

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

J. Laurie Snell
J. Laurie Snell*
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College, NH
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Research Papers
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 247 - 256
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