Order Statistics : Examples and Exercises

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.