# Wikipedia Authors - Order Statistic (Highlights)

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**Authors**:: [[Wikipedia Authors]]
**Full Title**:: Order Statistic
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**URL**:: [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_statistic#:~:text=In%20statistics%2C%20the%20kth%20order,to%20its%20kth%2Dsmallest%20value.&text=Important%20special%20cases%20of%20the,median%20and%20other%20sample%20quantiles.)
**Host**:: [[en.wikipedia.org]]
**Highlighted**:: [[2020-08-18]]
**Created**:: [[2022-09-26]]
## Highlights
- the *k*th order statistic of the uniform distribution is a [beta-distributed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_distribution "Beta distribution") random variable.