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Weak limits of sample range

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Laurens De Haan
Laurens De Haan*
Affiliation:
Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Abstract

Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for the weak convergence of the sample range of i.i.d. random variables as the number of observations tends to infinity.

Keywords

SAMPLE RANGEORDER STATISTICSWEAK CONVERGENCE

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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1974, pp. 836 - 841
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1974 

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