Maximum variance of Kth records

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 421-430

  Klimczak, Monika ^a   Rychlik, Tomasz ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Hoeffding's identity; Kth record; Order Statistic; Sharp bound; Variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044234985     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2004.06.038     Document Type: Article

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