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Spacings around an order statistic

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  • H. Nagaraja
  • Karthik Bharath
  • Fangyuan Zhang

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We determine the joint limiting distribution of adjacent spacings around a central, intermediate, or an extreme order statistic $$X_{k:n}$$ X k : n of a random sample of size $$n$$ n from a continuous distribution $$F$$ 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 $$X_{k:n}$$ X k : n . For an extreme $$X_{k:n}$$ X k : n , the asymptotic independence property of spacings fails for $$F$$ F in the domain of attraction of Fréchet and Weibull ( $$\alpha \ne 1$$ α ≠ 1 ) distributions. This work also provides additional insight into the limiting distribution for the number of observations around $$X_{k:n}$$ X k : n for all three cases. Copyright The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo 2015

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  • H. Nagaraja & Karthik Bharath & Fangyuan Zhang, 2015. "Spacings around an order statistic," Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Springer;The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, vol. 67(3), pages 515-540, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aistmt:v:67:y:2015:i:3:p:515-540
    DOI: 10.1007/s10463-014-0466-9
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