Order Statistics: Examples And Exercises

by Mohammad Ahsanullah, Valery B. Nevzorov

A lot of probabilists and statisticians, as well as actuarial mathematicians, reliability engineers, meteorologists, hydrologists, economists, business and sport analysts, very often deal with order statistics, which plays an important role in various fields of statistics and its applications. The authors suggest an approach to studying order statistics which proposes an active participation of our reader in the studying process. This book enables a reader to check his/her level of understanding of the theory of order statistics. It gives basic formulae (without proof), which are most important in the theory, and presents a lot of examples, which illustrate the theoretical statements.

236 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Dr. Mohammad Ahsanullah is a professor of statistics, Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management at Rider University (Lawrenceville, NJ). He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Royal Statistical Society.