nth order statistics <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_algorithm>
Saurabh Singh
B.Tech (Computer Science)
MNNIT
blog:geekinessthecoolway.blogspot.com



On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Piyush Grover <[email protected]>wrote:

> you can do it in nlogk or n+klogn time.
>
> create a min-heap tree of size k with first k nodes.
> Add k+1..n nodes in the tree. Everytime you insert a node in the tree
> check if it's greater than the root node. If yes remove
> root node and insert the new node (logk operations). So time complexity
> will be nlogk.
>
> another method with time complexity n+ klogn
> create a max heap tree of size n. O(n)
>
> keep on deleting the root node for k-1 operations by maintaining the heap
> property. Finally you will be left with the kth largest mode at the root.
> O(klogn)
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> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Ashish Goel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> how can we do so in O(n)
>> forming a heap or a tree with each node keeping children in its left node
>> still is nlogn
>>
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Ashish Goel
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