Download or read book Advances in Ranking and Selection, Multiple Comparisons, and Reliability written by N. Balakrishnan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-28 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. Panchapakesan has made significant contributions to ranking and selection and has published in many other areas of statistics, including order statistics, reliability theory, stochastic inequalities, and inference. Written in his honor, the twenty invited articles in this volume reflect recent advances in these areas and form a tribute to Panchapakesan’s influence and impact on these areas. Featuring theory, methods, applications, and extensive bibliographies with special emphasis on recent literature, this comprehensive reference work will serve researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the statistical and applied mathematics communities.