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Oil Exploration: Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Lakdére Benkherouf
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics and Operations Research King Saud University, College of Science Riyadh 11451, P.O. Box 2455, SaudiArabia

Abstract

In this paper we give a short proof of a general version of Theorem 3.3 of Benkherouf [2].

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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