TY - GEN
T1 - Finding percentile elements
AU - Dor, Dorit
AU - Zwick, Uri
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1995 IEEE.
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - We describe an algorithm for selecting the αn-th largest element (where 0<α<1), out of a totally ordered set of n elements, using at most (1+(1+o(1))H(α))·n comparisons, where H(α) is the binary entropy function and the o(1) stands for a function that tends to 0 as α tends to 0. This, for small α's, is almost best possible as there is a lower bound of about (1+H(α))·n comparisons. The algorithm obtained beats the global 3n upper bound of Schonhage, Paterson and Pippenger (1976) for α<1/3.
AB - We describe an algorithm for selecting the αn-th largest element (where 0<α<1), out of a totally ordered set of n elements, using at most (1+(1+o(1))H(α))·n comparisons, where H(α) is the binary entropy function and the o(1) stands for a function that tends to 0 as α tends to 0. This, for small α's, is almost best possible as there is a lower bound of about (1+H(α))·n comparisons. The algorithm obtained beats the global 3n upper bound of Schonhage, Paterson and Pippenger (1976) for α<1/3.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISTCS.1995.377042
DO - 10.1109/ISTCS.1995.377042
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AN - SCOPUS:85039786450
T3 - Proceedings ISTCS 1995 - 3rd Israel Symposium on the Theory of Computing and Systems
SP - 88
EP - 97
BT - Proceedings ISTCS 1995 - 3rd Israel Symposium on the Theory of Computing and Systems
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 3rd Israel Symposium on the Theory of Computing and Systems, ISTCS 1995
Y2 - 4 January 1995 through 6 January 1995
ER -