Some properties of a limiting distribution in Quicksort

Kok Hooi Tan and Petros Hadjicostas

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1995, vol. 25, issue 1, 87-94

Abstract: We prove that the limiting distribution of the standardized random number of comparisons needed to sort a list of length n by Quicksort has a density, and investigate some theoretical aspects of a numerical method used to estimate the density.

Keywords: Density; Generating; functions; Limiting; distribution; Quicksort; algorithm; Successive; substitution; Zeta; function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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