H. A. DAVID, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University. He has authored over 100 publications, including the Second Edition of Order Statistics.H. N. NAGARAJA, PhD, is a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Internal Medicine at The Ohio State University. He coedited, along with P. K. Sen and D. F. Morrison, Statistical Theory and Applications: Papers in Honor of H. A. David, and coauthored, along with B. C. Arnold and N. Balakrishnan, Records.

• Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Basic Distribution Theory. 3. Expected Values and Moments. 4. Bounds and Approximations for Moments of Order Statistics. 5. The NON-IID Case. 6. Further Distribution Theory. 7. Order Statistics in Nonparametric Inference. 8. Order Statistics in Parametric Inference. 9. Short-Cut Procedures. 10. Asymptotic Theory. 11. Asymptotic Results for Functions of Order Statistics. Appendix: Guide to Tables and Algorithms. References. Index.

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