An upper bound for the expected range of a random sample

DOI10.4169/074683410X475100zbMATH Open1272.97051MaRDI QIDQ3069705FDOQ3069705

Authors: James E. Marengo, Manuel J. Maña López 

Publication date: 19 January 2011

Published in: The College Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

order statisticsconvexityrandom sampleexpected range

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Distributions and stochastic processes (educational aspects) (97K60) Foundations and methodology of statistics (educational aspects) (97K70)

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