An Introduction to Order Statistics (Hardcover, 2013)

From the contents: Basic definitions Distributions of order statistics Sample quantiles and ranges Representations for order statistics Conditional distributions of order statistics.-Order statistics for discrete distributions Moments of order statistics: general relations Moments of uniform and exponential order statistics Moment relations for order statistics: normal distribution Asymptotic behavior of the middle and intermediate order statistics Asymptotic behavior of the extreme order statistics Some properties of estimators based on order statistics Minimum variance linear unbiased estimators Minimum variance linear unbiased estimators and predictors based on censored samples Estimation of parameters based on fixed number of sample quantiles Order statistics from extended samples Order statistics and record values Characterizations of distributions based on properties of order statistics Order statistics and record values based on F distributions Generalized order statistics Compliments and problems