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- From: srini@milton.u.washington.edu (Srini Tridandapani)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: question on "spacings"
- Message-ID: <1992Oct11.204318.22917@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 11 Oct 92 20:43:18 GMT
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- Hi:
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- I have a question relating to the distribution of the
- maximum spacing (or difference) between successive
- order statistics obtained by dropping (n-1) points
- uniformly on a straight line.
-
- I found the distribution in D.A. Darling's paper:
- "On a class of problems related to the random division
- of an interval," Annals of Math. Stat. vol 24 (1953),
- pp. 239-253. According to Darling the cdf
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- Pr{ V < v} = Sigma[Binomial[n+1,j]*(-1)^j*(1-v*j)^n,{0,j,Floor[1/v]}]
-
- (the rhs is in Mathematica notation) is a result
- going back to Whitworth (Choice and Chance, Cambridge Univ.
- Press, 1897).
-
- My question is:
- Are there are any published bounds to this distribution?
-
- Any pointers would be much appreciated. Please email
- any response that you may have to the question to:
- srini@u.washington.edu
-
- Thanks,
- Srini.
-
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