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An Upper Bound for the Expected Range of a Random Sample

by Manuel Lopez (Rochester Institute) and James Marengo (Rochester Institute)

This article originally appeared in:
College Mathematics Journal
January, 2010

Subject classification(s): Statistics and Probability
Applicable Course(s): 6.0 Elementary Statistics

The authors derive an upper bound of the expected range of random points chosen from the unit interval according to any distribution.


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