Advances in Distribution Theory, Order Statistics, and Inference

Discrete Distributions and Applications.- Stochastic Comparisons of Bernoulli Sums and Binomial Random Variables.- Stopped Compound Poisson Process and Related Distributions.- Constructions of Discrete Bivariate Distributions.- Continuous Distributions and Applications.- The Normal-Laplace Distribution and Its Relatives.- Some Observations on a Simple Means of Generating Skew Distributions.- Bivariate Distributions Based on the Generalized Three-Parameter Beta Distribution.- A Kotz-Type Distribution for Multivariate Statistical Inference.- Range of Correlation Matrices for Dependent Random Variables with Given Marginal Distributions.- Multifractional Probabilistic Laws.- Order Statistics and Applications.- Topics in the History of Order Statistics.- Order Statistics from Independent Exponential Random Variables and the Sum of the Top Order Statistics.- Fisher Information and Tukey’s Linear Sensitivity Measure Based on Ordered Ranked Set Samples.- Information Measures for Pareto Distributions and Order Statistics.- Confidence Coefficients of Interpolated Nonparametric Sign Intervals for Medians Under No or Weak Shape Assumptions.- Small Sample Asymptotics for Higher-Order Spacings.- Best Bounds on Expectations of L-Statistics from Bounded Samples.- Reliability and Applications.- The Failure Rates of Mixtures.- Characterizations of the Relative Behavior of Two Systems via Properties of Their Signature Vectors.- Systems with Exchangeable Components and Gumbel Exponential Distribution.- Estimating the Mean of Exponential Distribution from Step-Stress Life Test Data.- Random Stress-Dependent Strength Models Through Bivariate Exponential Conditionals Distributions.- Inference.- Some New Methods for Local Sensitivity Analysis in Statistics.- t-Tests with Models Close to theNormal Distribution.- Computational Aspect of the Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test Application.- An Objective Bayesian Procedure for Variable Selection in Regression.- On Bayesian and Decision-Theoretic Approaches to Statistical Prediction.- Phi-Divergence-Type Test for Positive Dependence Alternatives in 2×k Contingency Tables.- Dimension Reduction in Multivariate Time Series.- The Hat Problem and Some Variations.