Evaluating improvements of records
Volume 24 / 1997
Applicationes Mathematicae 24 (1997), 315-324
DOI: 10.4064/am-24-3-315-324
Abstract
We evaluate the extreme differences between the consecutive expected record values appearing in an arbitrary i.i.d. sample in the standard deviation units. We also discuss the relevant estimates for parent distributions coming from restricted families and other scale units.