Estimation of the minimum of a function using order statistics

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 76, Issue 374, 1981, Pages 467-469

  de Haan, Laurens ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Global minimum; Small order statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000408770     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1981.10477669     Document Type: Article

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