Generating Order Statistics from a Beta Population

ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 3, Number 4, 2000, 375?384

Generating Order Statistics
from a Beta Population

Ileana POPESCU
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics,
Academiei 14, 70109 Bucharest, Romania
E-mail: ileanap@fx.ro

Abstract.
We present general methods for simulating order statistics. We apply these methods in the particular case of order statistics from a Beta (p,q) distribution.

Keywords: Computer simulation, order statistics, grouping method, rejection method.