Practitioners and statisticians are often faced with incomplete or censored data. In life
testing, censored samples are present whenever the experimenter does not observe the …

In summer of 2010, the first author (HL) visited the second author (XL) at Lanzhou University,
China, and chaired the dissertation defense for XL's two graduating doctoral students …

In a multi-sample experiment, we model the parameters of an equal load-sharing system by
means of link functions in sequential order statistics models, and then discuss the estimation …

Most of the recently-defined notions of positive or negative dependence rely upon a variety
of orderings of bivariate random vectors. These orderings are generally partial orders, and …

In this paper, we establish some results for the increasing convex comparisons of
generalized order statistics. First, we prove that if the minimum of two sets of generalized …

Let X=(X1, X2,…, Xn) be a random vector, and denote by X1: n, X2: n,…, Xn: n the
corresponding order statistics. When X1, X2,…, Xn represent the lifetimes of n components …

In this article we investigate conditions on the underlying distribution functions on which the
sequential order statistics are based, to obtain stochastic comparisons of sequential order …

In the model of sequential order statistics, prior distributions are considered for the model
parameters, which, for example, describe increasing load put on remaining components …

In this paper, the shape parameters, reliability and hazard rate functions of the inverted
Kumaraswamy distribution are estimated using maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods …

Multivariate dependence of spacings of generalized order statistics is studied. It is shown
that spacings of generalized order statistics from DFR (IFR) distributions have the CIS (CDS) …