Variability of the MAX and MIN statistic: a theory of the quantile spread as a function of sample size

DOI10.1007/S11336-001-0916-1zbMATH Open1306.62508OpenAlexW1981731089MaRDI QIDQ2260028FDOQ2260028

Authors: James T. Townsend, Hans Colonius 

Publication date: 5 March 2015

Published in: Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-001-0916-1

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zbMATH Keywords

parallel processingextremal distributionsextremal variabilityquantile spread

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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