Perfect simulation from the Quicksort limit distribution

نویسندگان

  • Luc Devroye
  • James Allen Fill
  • Ralph Neininger
چکیده

The weak limit of the normalized number of comparisons needed by the Quicksort algorithm to sort n randomly permuted items is known to be determined implicitly by a distributional fixed-point equation. We give an algorithm for perfect random variate generation from this distribution.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره math.PR/0005237  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000