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This paper presents a result that provides a positive answer to the question of existence of regularities of the so called random in a broad sense mass phenomena (Kolmogorov, 1986). The theorem of existence of statistical regularities of mass phenomena in the form of closed in weak-* topology families of finitely-additive probability distributions, and their significance to decision theory, constitute the content of this paper.
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Ivanenko, V.I., Labkovsky, V.A. On Regularities of Mass Phenomena. Sankhya A 77, 237–248 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13171-015-0072-9
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