Solution

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Continuity and strict increase make the quantile function well-defined on . The endpoints of the uniform distribution occur with probability zero and do not affect the construction. For every real ,
Thus each has cumulative distribution function . Applying a fixed measurable function separately to independent random variables preserves their independence; explicitly, joint lower-tail probabilities factor as
Consequently
This is inverse transform sampling. Since preserves order, it also sends the central order statistic to the central order statistic, justifying .

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