Average-case analysis of multiple Quickselect: An algorithm for finding order statistics

DOI10.1016/0167-7152(95)00139-5zbMath0854.62052OpenAlexW2026693728MaRDI QIDQ1922133

Hosam M. Mahmoud, Janice Lent

Publication date: 16 January 1997

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-7152(95)00139-5

zbMATH Keywords

sortinganalysis of algorithmsQuickselectrandom binary search treeQuicksortselection of order statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Searching and sorting (68P10) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science (68R10) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

Related Items (10)

QuickSelect Tree Process Convergence, With an Application to Distributional Convergence for the Number of Symbol Comparisons Used by Worst-Case Find ⋮ Analysis of multiple quickselect variants. ⋮ Analysis of the expected number of bit comparisons required by quickselect ⋮ Multiple Quickselect -- Hoare's Find algorithm for several elements ⋮ Analysis of swaps in radix selection ⋮ Distributional analysis of swaps in quick select ⋮ Mixed distributions in Sattolo's algorithm for cyclic permutations via randomization and derandomization ⋮ Distributional Convergence for the Number of Symbol Comparisons Used by Quickselect ⋮ Analysis of quickselect under Yaroslavskiy's dual-pivoting algorithm ⋮ Binary search tree recursions with harmonic toll functions

Uses Software

• Quicksort
• Algorithm 489

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