Sharp bounds on expectations of kth record spacings from restricted families

Katarzyna Danielak and Mohammad Z. Raqab

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2004, vol. 69, issue 2, 175-187

Abstract: We derive sharp upper bounds on expectations of increments of consecutive kth record statistics based on independent samples from restricted families of distributions: the ones with decreasing density and failure rate. The results are obtained by means of projection method.

Keywords: Bound; Projection; kth; Record; Decreasing; density; Decreasing; failure; rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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