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S. T. Buckland, P. H. Garthwaite, Algorithm AS 259: Estimating Confidence Intervals by the Robbins-Monro Search Process, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 39, No. 3 (1990), pp. 413-424
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