# Wikipedia Authors - Order Statistic (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png) ## Metadata **Cover**:: <https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png> **Source**:: #from/readwise **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Wikipedia Authors]] **Full Title**:: Order Statistic **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **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.