The empirical distribution function and strong laws for functions of order statistics of uniform spacings

Jan Beirlant and M. C. A. van Zuijlen

Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 1985, vol. 16, issue 3, 300-317

Abstract: Let N points be arbitrarily chosen on the circle with unit circumference, and order them clockwise. The uniform mth order spacings are then defined as the clockwise distances between any pair of points having m - 1 other points in between. A Glivenko-Cantelli theorem and nonlinear almost sure bounds for the empirical distribution function based on these uniform spacings are derived. The parameter m is allowed to increase with N to infinity. Applications to linear combinations of functions of mth order spacings are given.

Keywords: mth; order; spacings; empirical; distribution; function; Glivenko-Cantelli; theorem; a.s.; nearly; linear; bounds; strong; laws; of; large; numbers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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