Abstract

Consider Ln=n−1∑1≤i≤ncnig(Xn:i) for order statistics Xn:i and let cni=n∫(i−1)/ni/nJdλ for some (Lebesgue) λ-summable over (0,1) function J. Sufficient as well as necessary conditions for limnLn=∫01Jgdλ to hold almost surely and in probability are given. Superposition (or Nemytskii) operators have been used to derive the laws of large numbers for L-statistics from the laws of large numbers in quasi-Banach function spaces for the empirical distribution functions based on X1,…,Xn.