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In the absolutely continuous case, order statistics, record values and several other models of ordered random variables can be viewed as special cases of generalized order statistics, which enables a unified treatment of their theory. This paper deals with discontinuous generalized order statistics, continuing on the recent work of Tran (2006). Specifically, we show that in general neither re...

The asymptotic properties of smoothing parameter estimates for smoothing splines are developed. We consider a variety of estimates including Generalized Cross Validation, Generalized Maximum Likelihood, and more generally Type II ML estimates and the properties of the marginal posterior mode. Under the usual Sobolov space frequentist assumptions on the function to be estimated , consistency and...

In this paper, for a given compact 3-manifold with an initial Riemannian metric and symmetric tensor, we establish the short-time existence uniqueness theorem extension of cross curvature flow. We give example flow on manifolds.