Thorsten Dickhaus has been a Full Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Bremen, Germany since 2015. He obtained his PhD in mathematics from the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany in 2008 and held postdoc positions at the German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, and the Berlin Institute of Technology. He was a Junior Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research interests include multiple testing, asymptotic statistics, the theory of nonparametric tests, resampling and bootstrap techniques, statistical applications in the life sciences, and computational statistics.

• Preface.- General preliminaries.- Correlation coefficients of bivariate normal distributions.- Empirical likelihood ratio tests for the population correlation coefficient.- The rearrangement algorithm.- On the covariances of order statistics.- On equi-correlation matrices.- Skew-normal distributions.- The weighted bootstrap.- index.

Thorsten Dickhaus has been a Full Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Bremen, Germany since 2015. He obtained his PhD in mathematics from the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany in 2008 and held postdoc positions at the German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, and the Berlin Institute of Technology. He was a Junior Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research interests include multiple testing, asymptotic statistics, the theory of nonparametric tests, resampling and bootstrap techniques, statistical applications in the life sciences, and computational statistics.

• Preface.- General preliminaries.- Correlation coefficients of bivariate normal distributions.- Empirical likelihood ratio tests for the population correlation coefficient.- The rearrangement algorithm.- On the covariances of order statistics.- On equi-correlation matrices.- Skew-normal distributions.- The weighted bootstrap.- index.

Thorsten Dickhaus has been a Full Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Bremen, Germany since 2015. He obtained his PhD in mathematics from the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany in 2008 and held postdoc positions at the German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, and the Berlin Institute of Technology. He was a Junior Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research interests include multiple testing, asymptotic statistics, the theory of nonparametric tests, resampling and bootstrap techniques, statistical applications in the life sciences, and computational statistics.

• Preface.- General preliminaries.- Correlation coefficients of bivariate normal distributions.- Empirical likelihood ratio tests for the population correlation coefficient.- The rearrangement algorithm.- On the covariances of order statistics.- On equi-correlation matrices.- Skew-normal distributions.- The weighted bootstrap.- index.