Efficient Computation of Probabilities of Events Described by Order Statistics and Application to a Problem of Queues

Consider a set of N i.i.d. random variables in [0, 1]. When the experimental values of the random variables are arranged in ascending order from smallest to largest, one has the order statistics of the set of random variables. In this note an O(N3) algorithm is developed for computing the probabilit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jones, Lee K., Larson, Richard C., 1943-
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5159