Yet another application of a binomial recurrence. Order statistics

DOI10.1007/BF02241658zbMath0686.62008OpenAlexW1488981024MaRDI QIDQ1262639

Vernon Rego, Wojciech Szpankowski

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02241658

zbMATH Keywords

order statisticsalternating sumrecursive expressionprogram unificationaccurate asymptotic expressionsbinomial recurrenceconcurrency enhancementi.i.d. geometric random variablesmoments of the maximum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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• The evaluation of an alternative sum with applications to the analysis of some data structures
• On a recurrence equation arising in the analysis of conflict resolution algorithms
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