A note on the distribution of kth records from discrete distributions

Fernando López-Blázquez, B. Salamanca Miño and A. Dembinska

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2005, vol. 75, issue 4, 325-330

Abstract: For a continuous distribution, F, it is well known that the sequence of kth-records is distributed as the sequence of 1st-record from 1-(1-F)k. This note shows that a similar result does not hold if the underlying distribution F is discrete.

Keywords: kth; records; Order; statistics; Discrete; distributions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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