On the logistic midrange

DOI10.1007/BF02491495MaRDI QIDQ1099520zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. Olusegun George, Cecil Rousseau

Publication date 1987

Published in Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02491495

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic functionsDixon's formulainversion of bilateral Laplace transformsLaplace distributionlogistic distributionlogistic midrangesample mediansample midrangetesting for outliers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hypergeometric integrals and functions defined by them ((E), (G), (H) and (I) functions) (33C60) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15)

Review text

It is well-known that for a large family of distributions, the sample midrange is asymptotically logistic. In this article, the logistic midrange is closely examined. Its distribution function is derived using Dixon's formula [see \textit{W. N. Bailey}, Generalized hypergeometric series. (1935; Zbl 0011.02303)] for the generalized hypergeometric function with unit argument, together with appropriate techniques for the inversion of (bilateral) Laplace transforms. Several relationships in distribution are established between the midrange and sample median of the logistic and Laplace random variables. Possible applications in testing for outliers are also discussed.

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