Holst, Lars

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Books

• Poisson approximation (1992)
  Barbour, A. D., Holst, Lars, Janson, Svante
• Problems and snapshots from the world of probability (1994)
  Blom, Gunnar, Holst, Lars, Sandell, Dennis

Articles (46)

• Konstantopoulos, Takis, Holst, Lars. Runs in coin tossing: a general approach for deriving distributions for functionals. Journal of Applied Probability 2015. 52:752-770
• Holst, Lars. Probabilistic proofs of Euler identities. Journal of Applied Probability 2013. 50:1206-1212
• Holst, Lars. A note on records in a random sequence. Arkiv för Matematik 2011. 49:351-356
• Holst, Lars, HOLST, LARS. On consecutive records in certain Bernoulli sequences. Journal of Applied Probability 2009. 46:1201-1208
• Holst, Lars. A note on embedding certain Bernoulli sequences in marked Poisson processes. Journal of Applied Probability 2008. 45:1181-1185
• Holst, Lars. The number of two consecutive successes in a Hoppe-Pólya urn. Journal of Applied Probability 2008. 45:901-906
• Holst, Lars. Counts of failure strings in certain Bernoulli sequences. Journal of Applied Probability 2007. 44:824-830
• Lindell, Andreas, Holst, Lars. Distributions of the longest excursions in a tied down simple random walk and in a Brownian bridge. Journal of Applied Probability 2007. 44:1056-1067
• Gut, Allan, Holst, Lars. Obituary: Carl-Gustav Esseen, 1918-2001. ISI Newsletter 2002. 26:5-6
• Gut, Allan, Holst, Lars. Obituary: Carl-Gustav Esseen, 1918-2001. The IMS Bulletin 2001. 30:408-409
• Holst, Lars. Extreme value distributions for random coupon collector and birthday problems. Extremes 2001. 4:129-145
• Chong, K. S., Cowan, Richard, Holst, Lars. The ruin problem and cover times of asymmetric random walks and Brownian motions. Advances in Applied Probability 2000. 32:177-192
• Bondesson, Lennart, Holst, Lars. Convergence to stable distributions using Laplace transforms. The Mathematical Scientist 1998. 23:95-107
• Fill, James Allen, Holst, Lars. On the distribution of search cost for the move-to-front rule. Random Structures & Algorithms 1996. 8:179-186
• Cowan, Richard, Chiu, S. N., Holst, Lars. A limit theorem for the replication time of a DNA molecule. Journal of Applied Probability 1995. 32:296-303
• Holst, Lars. The general birthday problem. Random Structures & Algorithms 1995. 6:201-208
• Holst, Lars. On the `problème des ménages' from a probabilistic viewpoint. Statistics & Probability Letters 1991. 11:225-231
• Blom, Gunnar, Holst, Lars. Embedding procedures for discrete problems in probability. The Mathematical Scientist 1991. 16:29-40
• Holst, Lars. A circle covering problem and DNA breakage. Statistics & Probability Letters 1990. 9:295-298
• Holst, Lars, Janson, Svante. Poisson approximation using the Stein-Chen method and coupling: Number of exceedances of Gaussian random variables. The Annals of Probability 1990. 18:713-723
• Holst, Lars. A note on Banach's match box problem. Statistics & Probability Letters 1989. 8:441-443
• Barbour, A. D., Holst, Lars. Some applications of the Stein-Chen method for proving Poisson convergence. Advances in Applied Probability 1989. 21:74-90
• Blom, Gunnar, Holst, Lars. Some properties of similar pairs. Advances in Applied Probability 1989. 21:941-944
• Holst, Lars. On urn schemes imbedded in birth processes.
• Holst, Lars. On birthday, collectors', occupancy and other classical urn problems. International Statistical Review 1986. 54:15-27
• Blom, Gunnar, Holst, Lars. Random walks of ordered elements with applications. The American Statistician 1986. 40:271-274
• Holst, Lars, Huesler, Juerg. Sequential urn schemes and birth processes. Advances in Applied Probability 1985. 17:257-279
• Gut, Allan, Holst, Lars. On the waiting time in a generalized roulette game. Statistics & Probability Letters 1984. 2:229-239
• Siegel, Andrew F., Holst, Lars. Covering the circle with random arcs of random sizes. Journal of Applied Probability 1982. 19:373-381
• Holst, Lars. On sequential occupancy problems. Journal of Applied Probability 1981. 18:435-442
• Holst, Lars. Some asymptotic results for incomplete multinomial or Poisson samples. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 1981. 8:243-246
• Holst, Lars. On convergence of the coverage by random arcs on a circle and the largest spacing. The Annals of Probability 1981. 9:648-655
• Holst, Lars, Rao, J. S.. Asymptotic spacings theory with applications to the two-sample problem. Canadian Journal of Statistics 1981. 9:79-89
• Holst, Lars. Some conditional limit theorems in exponential families. The Annals of Probability 1981. 9:818-830
• Holst, Lars. On the lengths of the pieces of a stick broken at random. Journal of Applied Probability 1980. 17:623-634
• Holst, Lars. On multiple covering of a circle with random arcs. Journal of Applied Probability 1980. 17:284-290
• Holst, Lars. On matrix occupancy, committee, and capture-recapture problems. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 1980. 7:139-146
• Holst, Lars, Rao, J. S.. Asymptotic theory for some families of two-sample nonparametric statistics. Sankhyā, Series A 1980. 42:19-52
• Holst, Lars. A unified approach to limit theorems for urn models. Journal of Applied Probability 1979. 16:154-162
• Holst, Lars. Asymptotic normality of sum-functions of spacings. The Annals of Probability 1979. 7:1066-1072
• Holst, Lars. Two conditional limit theorems with applications. The Annals of Statistics 1979. 7:551-557
• Holst, Lars. Some asymptotic results for occupancy problems. The Annals of Probability 1977. 5:1028-1035
• Holst, Lars. Some limit theorems with applications in sampling theory. The Annals of Statistics 1973. 1:644-658
• Holst, Lars. Asymptotic normality and efficiency for certain goodness-of-fit tests (Corr: V59 p699). Biometrika 1972. 59:137-145
• Holst, Lars. A note on finding the size of a finite population. Biometrika 1971. 58:228-229
• Holst, Lars. Limit theorems for some occupancy and sequential occupancy problems. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics 1971. 42:1671-1680