Weak convergence results for the Kakutani interval splitting procedure.

DOI10.1214/aop/1078415840zbMath1049.60025MaRDI QIDQ1879858

Willem R. Van Zwet, Ronald Pyke

Publication date: 15 September 2004

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1078415840

zbMATH Keywords

weak convergence; cumulants; self-similarity; empirical processes; spacings; Kakutani interval splitting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G30: Order statistics; empirical distribution functions

60G99: Stochastic processes

60F17: Functional limit theorems; invariance principles

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