本論文根據Iliopoulos and Balakrishnan (2009)文中的區塊排序資料的條件獨立性之結果，以及Huffer and Lin(2001)的遞迴演算法求得Laplace排序統計量線性組合的分配之完整表示式。所求的表示式可以使用Maple數學軟體加以運算。

We apply the results of conditional independence of blocked ordered data in Iliopoulos and Balakrishnan (2009) and the algorithm of Huffer and Lin (2001) to compute the exact expressions for the distribution of linear combinations of laplace order statistics. These expressions can then be evaluated using symbolic math package Maple.

Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 Main Tools 4
2.1 Conditional Independence Result for Order Statistics 4
2.2 Recursions 5
3 Main Results 7
4 Examples 9
5 Direction of Future Research 23
References 24
Appendix 26

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