Order Statistic
Given a sample of 
variates 
, ..., 
, reorder them so that 
. Then the 
thorder statistic 
is defined as 
, with the special cases
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A Robust Estimation technique based on linear combinations of order statistics is called an L-Estimate.See also Extreme Value Distribution, Hinge, Maximum, Minimum, Mode, Ordinal Number
References
Balakrishnan, N. and Cohen, A. C. Order Statistics and Inference. New York: Academic Press, 1991. David, H. A. Order Statistics, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 1981. Gibbons, J. D. and Chakraborti, S. (Eds.). Nonparametric Statistic Inference, 3rd ed. exp. rev. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1992.
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