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  1. University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Seng Huat Ong & Choung Min Ng

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  1. Department of Statistics and Informatics, Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac, City of Kragujevac, Serbia

    Miodrag Lovric

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Ong, S.H., Ng, C.M. (2011). Contagious Distributions. In: Lovric, M. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04898-2_185

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