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An Upper Bound for the Expected Difference between Order Statistics

by Mauel Lopez (Rochester Institute of Technology) and James Marengo (Rochester Institute of Technology)

This article originally appeared in:
Mathematics Magazine
December, 2011

Subject classification(s): Sampling Distributions | Statistical Inference and Techniques | Statistics and Probability
Applicable Course(s): 6.1 Probability & Statistics

The authors study the upper bound for the expected differences between order statistics of a distribution.

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