Balakrishnan, N.; Iliopoulos, G.; Keating, J.P.; Mason, R.L. - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 79 (2009) 16, pp. 1759-1766
In this paper, Pitman closeness of order statistics to the median of a distribution is discussed. In particular, it is shown that the sample median is the Pitman-closest order statistic to the population median in some general situations, and expressions for probabilities of closeness are also...