Sharp Inequalities for Ordered Random Variables in Statistics and Reliability: Volume I: Standard Order Statistics

About Narayanaswamy BalakrishnanTomasz Rychlik

Professor N. Balakrishnan is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University Hamilton Canada.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada a Fellow of the American Statistical Association a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and a recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece. He is an author of many well-known books and research monographs in Statistics including the well-known four encyclopedic volumes on Statistical Distributions published by John Wiley & Sons.  He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of three series of Communications in Statistics as well as Mathematical Methods of Statistics. Professor Tomasz Rychlik received the M.Sc. Degree in applied mathematics at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Technical Physics of the Technical University of Warsaw Poland in 1982. He defended his PhD thesis on robust statistics at the Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences in 1986. Now he is Professor of Mathematics at the Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interests contain probabilistic inequalities reliability theory and stochastic orders. He has published over 120 papers. Most of them were devoted to inequalities for ordered random variables.