Karl Pearson, Margaret V Pearson, On the Mean Character and Variance of a Ranked Individual, and on the Mean and Variance of the Intervals Between Ranked Individuals, Biometrika, Vol. 23, No. 3/4 (Dec., 1931), pp. 364-397
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Pearson et al. (1931) studied this question.