Geodesic
The A.S. Limit Distribution of the Longest Head Run
Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 45 (1993) no. 6, pp. 1245-1262

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It is well known that the length Zn of the longest head run observed in n tosses with a fair coin is approximately equal to log2n with a stochastically bounded remainder term. Though — log2n does not converge in law, in the present paper it is shown to have almost sure limit distribution in the sense of the a. s. central limit theorem having been studied recently. The results are formulated and proved in a general setup covering other interesting problems connected with patterns and runs such as the longest monotone block or the longest tube of a random walk.
DOI : 10.4153/CJM-1993-070-x
Mots-clés : 60C05, 60F15, runs, patterns, waiting times, almost sure central limit theorem 
Móri, Tamás F. The A.S. Limit Distribution of the Longest Head Run. Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 45 (1993) no. 6, pp. 1245-1262. doi: 10.4153/CJM-1993-070-x
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