Necessary and sufficient conditions for weak consistency of the median of independent but not identically distributed random variables

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 672-691

  Mizera, Ivan ^a   Wellner, Jon A ^b  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical distribution function; Majorization; Median; Weak consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032355985     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1028144854     Document Type: Article

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