  In this paper we study records obtained from partial comparisons within a
sequence of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables,
indexed by positive integers, with a common density~\(f.\) Our main result is
that if the comparison sets along a subsequence of the indices satisfy a
certain compatibility property, then the corresponding record events are
independent. Moreover, the record event probabilities do not depend on the
density~\(f\) and we obtain closed form expressions for the distribution
of~\(r^{th}\) record value for any integer~\(r \geq 1.\)
  Our proof techniques extend to the discrete case as well and we estimate the
difference in record event probabilities associated with a continuous random
variable~\(X\) and its discrete approximations.
