Order statistics and the length of the best-n-of-(2n - 1) competition

DOI10.1080/03610926.2014.995822MaRDI QIDQ2980071zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tamás Lengyel

Publication date 27 April 2017

Published in Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2014.995822

zbMATH Keywords

order statisticpaired comparisonbest \(n\)-of-\((2n - 1)\) competitionexpected length and variance of the length of the seriessooner waiting time problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Combinatorial probability (60C05) Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19)

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