A note on the distribution of kth records from discrete distributions

For a continuous distribution, F, it is well known that the sequence of kth-records is distributed as the sequence of 1st-record from 1-(1-F)k. This note shows that a similar result does not hold if the underlying distribution F is discrete.

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Year of publication:	2005
Authors:	López-Blázquez, F. ; Salamanca Miño, B. ; Dembinska, A.
Published in:	Statistics & Probability Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0167-7152. - Vol. 75.2005, 4, p. 325-330
Publisher:	Elsevier
Keywords:	kth records Order statistics Discrete distributions

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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