Improving the hartley-David-Gumbel bound for the mean of extreme order statistics

N. Balakrishnan

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1990, vol. 9, issue 4, 291-294

Abstract: A simple method is presented for improving Hartley-David-Gumbel's universal bound for the mean of extreme order statistics.

Keywords: Order; statistics; extremes; Cauchy-Schwarz; inequality; universal; bounds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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