Random Sampling Techniques for Space Efficient Online Computation of Order Statistics of Large Datasets

Summary: Space-efficient online quantile estimation without input length, via non-uniform random sampling, extending the single-pass framework for approximate order statistics. Lightweight extreme-quantile estimator uses less space than general methods, showing sampling's edge for tail quantiles. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h069bbbc208c8028a
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 0.00018025134
Overall Rank: 450 | 96.98%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304204

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{manku_sigmod99,
        title = {{Random Sampling Techniques for Space Efficient Online Computation of Order Statistics of Large Datasets}},
        author = {Manku, Gurmeet Singh and Rajagopalan, Sridhar and Lindsay, Bruce G.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304204},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304204},
        year = {1999}
}

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153	New Sampling-Based Summary Statistics for Improving Approximate Query Answers	1998	SIGMOD	0.00028621958
242	Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms	1997	VLDB	0.00023354266
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518	Random Sampling for Histogram Construction: How much is enough?	1998	SIGMOD	0.00016938992
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