Exact Lower Moments of Order Statistics in Small Samples from a Normal Distribution

Howard L. Jones

The Annals of Mathematical Statistics · 1948 · 37 citations · 0 references

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Exact means in samples of size $\geq 3$, and exact second moments and product-moments in samples of size $\leq 4$, are given in Table 1 in terms of $\pi$ for order statistics selected from the normal distribution $N(0, 1)$. The derivation employs multiple integration and some general properties of the moments.