RUNS BASED ON DISCRETE ORDER STATISTICS

Year 2011, Volume: 01 Issue: 2, 185 - 191, 01.12.2011

Alexei Stepanov

Abstract

In the present paper, we study runs based on discrete order statistics. Limit results for the total number of such runs and the length of the longest run are derived.

Keywords

Runs, order statistics, limit laws

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• Alexei Stepanov is presently an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics of Izmir University of Economics, Turkey. He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of St.Petersburg (Leningrad)