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Translated fromSibirskiî Matematicheskiî Zhurnal, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 783–789, July–August, 1996.
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Borovkov, K.A. A bound for the distribution of a stopping time for a stochastic system. Sib Math J 37, 683–689 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02104661
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