Summary The distribution theory and possible constructions for spacings (differences) between successive order statistics of a sample of independent and identically distributed random variables are reviewed. The problem of finding the limiting distribution of a function of spacings is discussed and some general limit theorems for such are presented.
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Ronald Pyke (1965) studied this question.
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