Limit theorems for the logarithm of sample spacings

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 121-132

  Shao, Yongzhao ^a   Hahn, Marjorie G ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central limit theorems; Entropy; Information type inequalities; Sample spacings; Strong laws of large numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001537082     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(94)00156-3     Document Type: Article

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1. Logarithms of sample spacings
2. On the logarithms of high-order spacings
3. On a class of problems related to the random division of an interval
4. On information and sufficiency
5. Spacings
6. Maximum spacing estimates: a generalization and improvement of maximum likelihood estimates I
7. On spacings and likelihood
8. Entropy and maximal spacings for random partitions
9. Note on the consistency of the maximum likelihood estimate
10. The asymptotic power of certain tests of fit based on sample spacings