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.