I could not find a discussion of the following in any of several text-books I looked at in University of West Aust library. I would appreciate some guidance, either in the form of a pointer to an appropriate reference, or an answer/partial answer/comment or whatever. I did find several web-sites which had exam questions on closely related topics, but no relevant teaching material! Needless to say, I am not a statistician.
In its most specific form, I would like to know how one determines the sampling distribution of the maximum of say, n, random normal deviates. I would also like to know something more general. If I take multiple samples of n random deviates from some distribution, what will be (or how could I determine) the sampling distribution of the k-th ranked deviate. I hope I've put this clearly. ... If, say, I take random numbers 6 at a time from some distribution, what will be the sampling distribution of the maximum, the 2-nd highest, 5-th highest, minimum and such-like. Cheers, -- Mark R. Diamond . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
