Abstract
A general identity for the product moments of successive order statistics is given, which is valid in a class of probability distributions including Weibull, Pareto, exponential and Burr distributions.
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Mohie El-Din, M.M., Abu-Youssef, S.E. & Sultan, K.S. An identity for the product moments of order statistics. Metrika 44, 95–100 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02614058
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