The number of elements close to near-records in geometric samples
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2006
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Louchard G.
Prodinger H.
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The statistics of interest here are related to an independent sequence of geometrically distributed random variables. We look at the (n - k)th order statistic (=(k + 1)st winner) and study the number of elements that fall exactly a away from the value of this "person," where a is a fixed integer. This is motivated by a recent paper by Balakrishnan and Stepanov who considered a continuous analogue of the problem. © 2006 NISC Pty Ltd.
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Quaestiones Mathematicae
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