An Introduction to Order Statistics

Basic definitions.- Distributions of order statistics.- Sample quantiles and ranges.- Representations for order statistics.- Conditional distributions of order statistics.-Order statistics for discrete distributions.- Moments of order statistics: general relations.- Moments of uniform and exponential order statistics.- Moment relations for order statistics: normal distribution.- Asymptotic behavior of the middle and intermediate order statistics.- Asymptotic behavior of the extreme order statistics.- Some properties of estimators based on order statistics.- Minimum variance linear unbiased estimators.- Minimum variance linear unbiased estimators and predictors based on censored samples.- Estimation of parameters based on fixed number of sample quantiles.- Order statistics from extended samples.- Order statistics and record values.- Characterizations of distributions based on properties of order statistics.- Order statistics and record values based on Fα distributions.- Generalized order statistics.- Compliments and problems.