Spacings around and order statistic

We determine the joint limiting distribution of adjacent spacings around a central, intermediate, or an extreme order statistic Xk:n of a random sample of size n from a continuous distribution F. For central and intermediate cases, normalized spacings in the left and right neighborhoods are asymptot...

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Main Authors: Nagaraja, H. N., Bharath, Karthik, Zhang, Fangyuan
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Published: Springer 2015
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author Nagaraja, H. N.
Bharath, Karthik
Zhang, Fangyuan
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description We determine the joint limiting distribution of adjacent spacings around a central, intermediate, or an extreme order statistic Xk:n of a random sample of size n from a continuous distribution F. For central and intermediate cases, normalized spacings in the left and right neighborhoods are asymptotically i.i.d. exponential random variables. The associated independent Poisson arrival processes are independent of Xk:n. For an extreme Xk:n, the asymptotic independence property of spacings fails for F in the domain of attraction of Fréchet and Weibull (α≠1) distributions. This work also provides additional insight into the limiting distribution for the number of observations around Xk:n for all three cases.
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spelling nottingham-435972020-05-04T17:09:42Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43597/ Spacings around and order statistic Nagaraja, H. N. Bharath, Karthik Zhang, Fangyuan We determine the joint limiting distribution of adjacent spacings around a central, intermediate, or an extreme order statistic Xk:n of a random sample of size n from a continuous distribution F. For central and intermediate cases, normalized spacings in the left and right neighborhoods are asymptotically i.i.d. exponential random variables. The associated independent Poisson arrival processes are independent of Xk:n. For an extreme Xk:n, the asymptotic independence property of spacings fails for F in the domain of attraction of Fréchet and Weibull (α≠1) distributions. This work also provides additional insight into the limiting distribution for the number of observations around Xk:n for all three cases. Springer 2015-06-30 Article PeerReviewed Nagaraja, H. N., Bharath, Karthik and Zhang, Fangyuan (2015) Spacings around and order statistic. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 67 (3). pp. 515-540. ISSN 1572-9052 Spacings; uniform distribution; central order statistics; intermediate order statistics; extremes; Poisson process. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10463-014-0466-9 doi:10.1007/s10463-014-0466-9 doi:10.1007/s10463-014-0466-9
spellingShingle Spacings; uniform distribution; central order statistics; intermediate order statistics; extremes; Poisson process.
Nagaraja, H. N.
Bharath, Karthik
Zhang, Fangyuan
Spacings around and order statistic
title Spacings around and order statistic
title_full Spacings around and order statistic
title_fullStr Spacings around and order statistic
title_full_unstemmed Spacings around and order statistic
title_short Spacings around and order statistic
title_sort spacings around and order statistic
topic Spacings; uniform distribution; central order statistics; intermediate order statistics; extremes; Poisson process.
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