Variability of the max and min statistic: A theory of the quantile spread as a function of sample size

Psychometrika

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 759-772

  Townsend, James T ^a   Colonius, Hans ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extremal distributions; Extremal variability; Parallel processing; Quantile spread

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646431447     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-001-0916-1     Document Type: Article

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