The Invariance Principle for One-Sample Rank-Order Statistics

Abstract

Analogous to the Donsker theorem on partial cumulative sums of independent random variables, for a broad class of one-sample rank order statistics, weak convergence to Brownian motion processes is studied here. A simple proof of the asymptotic normality of these statistics for random sample sizes is also presented. Some asymptotic results on renewal theory for one-sample rank order statistics are derived.