QUICKSELECT Revisited
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We give an overview of the running time analysis of the random divide-and-conquer algorithm FIND or QUICKSELECT. The results concern moments, distribution of FIND’s running time, the limiting distribution, a stochastic bound and the key: a stochastic fixed point equation.
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volume 3 issue None
pages 271- 296
publication date 2004-11
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