Professor N. Balakrishnan's Publications

Books Authored (back to top)
 

	An Introduction to Lifetime Data Analysis (co-authored with C. Caroni), Birkhäuser, Boston, 2010 (to appear).
	Continuous Bivariate Distributions: Theory and Methods, Second edition (co-authored with C. D. Lai), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2009 (684 pages).
	A First Course in Order Statistics (co-authored with B.C. Arnold and H.N. Nagaraja), Classic edition, SIAM Publishers, Philadelphia, 2008 (279 pages).
	Precedence-Type Tests and Applications (co-authored with H.K.T. Ng), John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2006 (314 pages).
	Extreme Value and Related Models with Applications in Engineering and Science (co-authored with E. Castillo, A.S. Hadi and J.M. Sarabia), John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2005 (362 pages).
	A Primer on Statistical Distributions (co-authored with V.B. Nevzorov), John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2003 (305 pages).
	Runs and Scans with Applications (co-authored with M.V. Koutras), John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2002 (452 pages).
	Progressive Censoring: Theory, Methods and Applications (co-authored with R. Aggarwala), Birkhäuser, Boston, 2000 (248 pages).
	Continuous Multivariate Distributions, Vol. 1, Second edition (co-authored with S. Kotz and N.L. Johnson), John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2000 (722 pages).
	Records (co-authored with B.C. Arnold and H.N. Nagaraja), John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1998 (312 pages).
	Discrete Multivariate Distributions (co-authored with N.L. Johnson and S. Kotz), John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997 (299 pages).
	Continuous Univariate Distributions - Volume 2, Second edition (co-authored with N.L. Johnson and S. Kotz), John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1995 (719 pages).
	Continuous Univariate Distributions - Volume 1, Second edition (co-authored with N.L. Johnson and S. Kotz), John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1994 (756 pages).
	A First Course in Order Statistics (co-authored with B.C. Arnold and H.N. Nagaraja), John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1992 (279 pages).
	Order Statistics and Inference: Estimation Methods (co-authored with A.C. Cohen), Academic Press, San Diego, 1991 (371 pages).
	Relations, Bounds and Approximations for Order Statistics (co-authored with B.C. Arnold), Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989 (173 pages).
	Robust Inference (co-authored with M.L. Tiku and W.Y. Tan), Marcel Dekker, New York, 1986 (321 pages).

Handbooks Authored (back to top)
 

	Handbook of Tables for Order Statistics from Lognormal Distributions with Applications (co-authored with W. W. S. Chen), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1999 (868 pages).
	Tables for the Use of Range and Studentized Range in Tests of Hypotheses (co-authored with H. L. Harter), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1998 (663 apges).
	CRC Handbook of Tables for Order Statistics from Inverse Gaussian Distributions with Applications (co-authored with W. W. S. Chen), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1997 (688 pages).
	CRC Handbook of Tables for the Use of Order Statistics in Estimation (co-authored with H. L. Harter), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1996 (669 pages).

Volumes Edited (back to top)
 

	Handbook of the Logistic Distribution, Second edition, Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia, 2011 (to appear).
	Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Life and Health Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2010 (986 pages).
	Advances in Degradation Modeling (co-edited with M.S. Nikulin, N. Limnios, W. Kahle and C. Huber-Carol), Birkh¨auser, Boston, 2010 (416 pages).
	Advances in Mathematical and Statistical Modeling (co-edited with B.C. Arnold, J.M. Sarabia and R. M\'inguez), Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008 (530 pages)
	Beyond Parametrics in Interdisciplinary Research: Festschrift in Honor of Professor Pranab K. Sen (Co-edited with E. P˜ena and M. J. Silvapulle), Institute of Mathematical Statistics Collections, Volume 1, Beachwood, Ohio , 2008 (407 pages).
	Advances in Statistical Methods for the Health Sciences, Applications to Cancer and AIDS Studies, Genome Sequence Analysis, and Survival Analysis (co-edited with J. L. Auget, M. Mesbah, G. Molenberghs) Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007 (540 pages).
	Advances in Distribution Theory, Order Statistics, and Inference (coedited with E. Castillo and J. M. Sarabia), Birkhäuser, Boston, 2006 (483 pages).
	16 Volumes of Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second edition (coedited with S. Kotz, C. B. Read and B. Vidakovic), John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey (2006).
	Advances on Models, Characterizations and Applications (coedited with I. G. Bairamov and O. L. Gebizlioglu), Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, New York, 2005 (234 pages).
	Advances in Ranking and Selection, Multiple Comparisons and Reliability (coedited with N. Kannan and H. N. Nagaraja), Birkhäuser, Boston, 2005 (412 pages).
	Parametric and Semiparametric Models with Applications to Reliability, Survival Analysis, and Quality of Life (coedited with M. S. Nikulin, M. Mesbah and N. Limnios), Birkhäuser, Boston, 2004 (555 pages).
	Handbook of Statistics - 23: Advances in Survival Analysis (coedited with C.R. Rao), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2004 (771 pages).
	Statistical Methods and Practice (coedited with N. Kannan and M.R. Srinivasan), Narosa Publishing Hourse, New Delhi, 2003 (363 pages).
	Goodness-of-Fit Tests and Model Validity (coedited with C. Huber-Carol, M. Nikulin and M. Mesbah), Birkhäuser, Boston, 2002 (504 pages).
	Advances on Methodological and Applied Aspects of Probability and Statistics, Taylor & Francis, London, 2002 (620 pages).
	Advances on Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of Probability and Statistics, Taylor & Francis, London, 2002 (528 pages).
	Handbook of Statistics - 20: Advances in Reliability (coedited with C.R. Rao), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2001 (837 pages).
	Probability and Statistical Models with Applications (coedited with Ch.A. Charalambides and M.V. Koutras), Chapman & Hall, Boca Raton, 2001 (624 pages).
	Asymptotic Methods in Probability and Statistics with Applications (coedited with I.A. Ibragimov and V.B. Nevzorov), Birkhäuser, Boston, 2001 (549 pages).
	Advances in Stochastic Simulation Methods (coedited with V.B. Melas and S. Ermakov), Birkhäuser, Boston, 2000 (386 pages).
	Scan Statistics and Applications (coedited with J. Glaz), Birkhäuser, Boston, 1999 (324 pages).
	Handbook of Statistics - 17: Order Statistics – II: Applications (coedited with C.R. Rao), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1998 (712 pages).
	Handbook of Statistics - 16: Order Statistics – I: Theory and Methods (coedited with C.R. Rao), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1998 (731 pages).
	Advances in Statistical Decision Theory and Applications (coedited with S. Panchapakesan), Birkhäuser, Boston, 1997 (448 pages).
	Advances in Combinatorial Methods and Applications to Probability and Statistics, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1997 (562 pages).
	Advances in the Theory and Practice of Statistics – A Volume in Honor of Samuel Kotz (coedited with N.L. Johnson), John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997 (629 pages).
	The Exponential Distribution: Theory, Methods and Applications (coedited with A.P. Basu), Gordon and Breach, Newark, NJ, 1995 (638 pages).
	Recent Advances in Life-Testing and Reliability, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1995 (632 pages). Handbook of the Logistic Distribution, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1992 (601 pages).

Major Papers in Journals (back to top)

Nonparametric inference based on panel count data (with X. Zhao and J. Sun), Test (2010), 70 pages, to appear (with discussions).

New multi-sample nonparametric tests for panel count data (with X. Zhao), The Annals of Statistics (2009), 37, 1112-1149.

A synthesis of exact inferential results for exponential step-stress models and associated optimal accelerated life-tests, Metrika (2009), 69, 351-396.

Progressive censoring methodology: An appraisal, Test (2007), 16, 211-296 (with discussions).

Permanents, order statistics, outliers, and robustness, Revista Matemática Complutense (2007), 20, 7-107.

Analyzing unreplicated factorial experiments: A review with some new proposals (with M. Hamada), Statistica Sinica (1998), 8, 1-41 (with discussions).

Order statistics from non-identical exponential random variables and some applications, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (1994), 18, 203-253 (with discussions).

Selected Journal Articles (back to top)

To appear (back to Selected Journal Articles)

A class of multi-sample nonparametric tests for panel count data (with X. Zhao), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics.

Forms of four-word indicator functions with implications to two-level factorial designs (with P. Yang), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics.

Exact two-sample non-parametric confidence, prediction, and tolerance intervals based on ordinary and progressively Type-II right censored data (with E. Beutner and E. Cramer), Test.

Precedence-type test based on Kaplan-Meier estimator of cumulative distribution function (with H.K.T. Ng), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.

Inference for a simple step-stress model with competing risks for failure from the exponential distribution under time constraint (with D. Han), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis.

2010 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Study of some measures of dependence between order statistics and systems (with J. Navarro), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 101, 52-67.

Bivariate Birnbaum-Saunders distribution and associated inference (with D. Kundu and A. Jamalizadeh), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 101, 113-125.

Distributions of order statistics and linear combinations of order statistics from an elliptical distribution as mixtures of unified skew-elliptical distributions (with A. Jamalizadeh), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 101, 1412-1427.

Applications of average and projected systems to the study of coherent systems (with J. Navarro and F. Spizzichino), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 101, 1471-1482.

Some nonparametric precedence-type tests based on progressively censored samples and evaluation of power (with R.C. Tripathi, N. Kannan and H.K.T.Ng), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 140, 559-573.

A nonparametric test for the equality of counting processes with panel count data (with X. Zhao), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 54, 135-142.

Estimation of the Birnbaum-Saunders regression model with current status data (with Q. Xiao, Z. Liu and X. Lu), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 54, 326-332.

Influence analyses of skew-normal/independent linear mixed models (with C.B. Zeller, F.V. Labra and V.H. Lachos), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 54, 1266-1280.

Mean residual life function, associated orderings and properties (with A. Nanda and S. Bhattacharjee), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 59, 55-65.

Order statistics and linear combination of order statistics arising from a bivariate selection normal distribution (with A. Jamalizadeh and M. Salehi), Statistics & Probability Letters, 80, 445-451.

A skewed sinh-normal distribution and its properties and application to air pollution (with V. Leiva, F. Vilca and A. Sanhueza), Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods, 39, 426-443.

2009 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

New multi-sample nonparametric tests for panel count data (with X. Zhao), The Annals of Statistics, 37, 1112-1149.

An exact control-versus-treatment comparison test based on ranked set samples (with O. Ozturk), Biometrics, 65, 1213-1222.

Run and frequency quota rules in process monitoring and acceptance sampling (with S. Bersimis and M.V. Koutras), Journal of Quality Technology, 41, 66-81.

Exact two-sample nonparametric test for quantile difference between two populations based on ranked set samples (with O. Ozturk), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 61, 235-249.

Exact inference for a simple step-stress model from the exponential distribution under time constraint (with Q. Xie and D. Kundu), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 61, 251-274.

Stochastic monotonicity of the MLE of exponential mean under different censoring schemes (with G. Iliopoulos), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 61, 753-772.

Proportional hazards regression under progressive Type-II censoring (with S. Alvarez-Andrade and L. Bordes), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 61, 887-903.

Likelihood ratio order of the second order statistic from independent heterogeneous exponential random variables (with P. Zhao and X. Li), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 100, 952-962.

Mean residual life order of convolutions of heterogeneous exponential random variables (with P. Zhao), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 100, 1792-1801.

Planning life tests with progressively Type-I interval censored data from the lognormal distribution (with C-T. Lin and S.J.W. Wu), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 54-61.

Erratum to “Progressively Type-II right censored order statistics from discrete distributions” (with A. Dembinska), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 1572-1574.

Optimal step-stress testing for progressively Type-I censored data from exponential distribution (with D. Han), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 1782-1798.

A meta-analysis approach for step-stress experiments (with M. Kateri and U. Kamps), Journal

of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 2907-2919.

Stochastic comparisons and properties of conditional generalized order statistics (with P. Zhao), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 2920-2932.

Characterization of MRL order of fail-safe systems with heterogeneous exponential components (with P. Zhao), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 3027-3037.

De-aliasing effects using semifoldover techniques (with P. Yang), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 3102-3111.

Nonparametric control charts based on runs and Wilcoxon-type rank-sum statistics (with I.S. Triantafyllou and M.V. Koutras), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 3177-3192.

COM-Poisson cure rate survival models and an application to a cutaneous melanoma data (with J. Rodrigues, M. de Castro and V.G. Cancho), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 3605-3611.

Semiparametric estimation for count data through weighted distributions (with C.C. Kokonendji and T. Senga Kiesse), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 3625-3638.

Order statistics from trivariate normal and t-distributions in terms of generalized skew-normal and skew-t distributions (with A. Jamalizadeh), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 3799-3819.

Dynamic signatures and their use in comparing the reliability of new and used systems (with F.J. Samaniego and J. Navarro), Naval Research Logistics, 56, 577-591.

Recurrence relations for distributions of a skew-t and a linear combination of order statistics from a bivariate-t (with A. Jamalizadeh and M. Khosravi), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 53, 847-852.

Exact computation of the null distribution of a test for multiple outliers in an exponential sample (with C-T. Lin), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 53, 3281-3290.

Estimation for the three-parameter lognormal distribution based on progressively censored data (with P. Basak and I. Basak), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 53, 3580-3592.

Recurrence relations for bivariate t and extended skew-t distributions and an application to order statistics from bivariate t (with A. Jamalizadeh and Y. Mehrali), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 53, 4018-4027.

A synthesis of exact inferential results for exponential step-stress models and associated optimal accelerated life-tests, Metrika, 69, 351-396.

Reconstruction of past records (with M. Doostparast and J. Ahmadi), Metrika, 70, 89-109.

Current k-records and their use in distribution-free confidence intervals (with J. Ahmadi and M. Razmkhah), Statistics & Probability Letters, 79, 29-37.

Stochastic comparison and monotonicity of inactive record values (with P. Zhao), Statistics & Probability Letters, 79, 566-572.

Conditional independence of blocked ordered data (with G. Iliopoulos), Statistics & Probability Letters, 79, 1008-1015.

On simple calculation of the Fisher information in hybrid censoring schemes (with S. Park), Statistics & Probability Letters, 79, 1311-1319.

Minimal repair under a step-stress test (with U. Kamps and M. Kateri), Statistics & Probability Letters, 79, 1548-1558.

Likelihood ratio ordering of convolutions of heterogeneous exponential and geometric random variables (with P. Zhao), Statistics & Probability Letters, 79, 1717-1723.

Pitman closeness of sample median to population median (with G. Iliopoulos, J.P. Keating and R.L. Mason), Statistics & Probability Letters, 79, 1759-1766.

Some results on order statistics generated by two simulation methods (with E. Cramer and K. Davies), Statistics & Probability Letters, 79, 1847-1857.

Pitman closeness of record values to population quantiles (with J. Ahmadi), Statistics & Probability Letters, 79, 2037-2044.

Prediction in a trivariate normal distribution via a linear combination of order statistics (with A. Jamalizadeh), Statistics & Probability Letters, 79, 2289-2296.

Order restricted inference for exponential step-stress models (with E. Beutner and M. Kateri), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 58, 132-142.

Optimal step-stress accelerated degradation test plan for gamma degradation processes (with S-T. Tseng and C-C. Tsai), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 58, 611-618.

The Bayesian approach for highly reliable electro-explosive devices using one-shot device testing (with T-H. Fan and C-C. Chang), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 79, 1143-1154.

Distribution-free confidence intervals for quantiles and tolerance intervals in terms of k-records (with J. Ahmadi), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 79, 1219-1233.

Mixture inverse Gaussian distributions and its transformations, moments and applications (with V. Leiva, A. Sanhueza and E. Cabrera), Statistics, 43, 91-104.

On families of beta- and generalized gamma-generated distributions and associated inference (with K. Zografos), Statistical Methodology, 6, 344-362.

Exact distribution of a linear combination of a variable and order statistics from the other two variables of a trivariate elliptical random vector as a mixture of skew-elliptical distributions (with A. Jamalizadeh and H. Mahmoodian), Statistical Methodology, 6, 634-644.

Inference for a simple step-stress model with Type-I censoring and lognormally distributed lifetimes (with L. Zhang and Q. Xie), Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods, 38, 1690-1709.

Permanent expansions and distributions of order statistics in the INID case (with E. Cramer and K. Herle), Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods, 38, 2078-2088.

Distributions of ratios of two correlated skew-normal variables and of ratios of two linear functions of order statistics from bivariate normal distribution (with A. Jamalizadeh and A. Sheikhy), Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods, 38, 2107-2115.

Truncated and limited skew-normal and skew-t distributions: Properties and an illustration (with A. Jamalizadeh and R. Pourmousa), Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods, 38, 2653-2668.

An exponential model for damage accumulation (with E. Castillo, A. Fernandez-Canteli and M. Kateri), Communications in Statistics—Simulation and Computation, 38, 215-232.

Evaluation of beta generation algorithms (with Y-C. Hung and Y-T. Lin), Communications in Statistics—Simulation and Computation, 38, 750-770.

Pitman closeness of order statistics to population quantiles (with K. Davies and J.P. Keating), Communications in Statistics—Simulation and Computation, 38, 802-820.

Fisher information in ordered data: A review (with G. Zheng and S. Park), Statistics and Its Interface, 2, 101-113.

2008 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Mixture representations of residual lifetimes of used systems (with J. Navarro and F. Samaniego), Journal of Applied Probability, 45, 1097-1112.

Conditional ordering of k-out-of-n systems with independent but non-identical components (with P. Zhao and X. Li), Journal of Applied Probability, 45, 1113-1125.

On the application and extension of system signatures in engineering reliability (with J. Navarro, F.J. Samaniego and D. Bhattacharya), Naval Research Logistics, 55, 313-327.

Progressively Type-II right censored order statistics from discrete distributions (with A. Dembinska), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 845-856.

Statistical evidence in contingency tables analysis (with M. Kateri), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 873-887.

Asymptotic properties of numbers of near minimum observations under progressive Type-II censoring (with A. Stepanov), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 1010-1020.

Connections of the Poisson weight function to overdispersion and underdispersion (with C. Kokonendji and D. Mizère), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 1287-1296.

On the joint distribution of placement statistics under progressive censoring and applications to precedence test (with R.C. Tripathi and N. Kannan), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 1314-1324.

Some simple nonparametric methods to test for perfect ranking in ranked set sampling (with T. Li), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 1325-1338.

Exponential progressive step-stress life-testing with link function based on Box-Cox transformation(with T-H. Fan and W-L. Wang), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 2340-2354.

The asymptotic distribution of numbers of observations near order statistics (with A. Dembinska), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 2552-2562.

Ordered ranked set samples and applications to inference (with T. Li), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 3512-3524.

Exact inference for a simple step-stress model with competing risks for failure from exponential distribution under Type-II censoring (with D. Han), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 4172-4186.

On order statistics from bivariate skew-normal and skew-t distributions (with A. Jamalizadeh), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 4187-4197.

Progressive censoring from heterogeneous distributions with applications to robustness (with E. Cramer), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 60, 151-171.

Order restricted inference for sequential k-out-of-n systems (with E. Beutner and U. Kamps), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 99, 1489-1502.

Mixture representation for order statistics from INID progressive censoring and its applications (with T. Fischer and E. Cramer), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 99, 1999-2015.

Lifetime analysis based on the generalized Birnbaum-Saunders distribution (with V. Leiva, M. Riquelme and A. Sanhueza), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 52, 2079-2097.

On the hazard function of Birnbaum-Saunders distribution and associated inference (with D. Kundu and N. Kannan), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 52, 2692-2702.

Exact likelihood inference for two exponential populations under joint Type-II censoring (with A. Rasouli), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 52, 2725-2738.

Point and interval estimation for extreme-value regression model under Type-II censoring (with P.S. Chan, H.K.T. Ng and Q. Zhou), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 52, 4040-4058.

Fisher information based progressive censoring plans (with M. Burkschat, E. Cramer and G. Hofmann), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 53, 366-380.

A new class of inverse Gaussian type distributions (with A. Sanhueza and V. Leiva), Metrika, 68, 31-49.

Precedence-type tests based on record values (with A. Dembinska and A. Stepanov), Metrika, 68, 233-255.

Inference for a simple step-stress model with Type-II censoring, and Weibull distributed lifetimes (with M. Kateri), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 57, 616-626.

A new method for goodness-of-fit testing based on Type-II right censored samples (with C-T. Lin and Y-L. Huang), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 57, 633-642.

Best linear equivariant estimation and prediction in location-scale families (with M. Burkschat and E. Cramer), Sankhya, Series B, 70, 229-247.

Exact likelihood inference based on an unified hybrid censored sample from the exponential distribution (with A. Rasouli and N. Sanjari-Farsipour), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 78, 475-488.

A Laguerre polynomial approximation for a goodness-of-fit test for exponential distribution based on progressively censored data (with D. Sanjel), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 78, 503-513.

Best linear unbiased estimators of parameters of a simple linear regression model based on ordered ranked set samples (with T. Li), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 78, 1267-1278.

Asymptotic properties of the ratio of order statistics (with A. Stepanov), Statistics & Probability Letters, 78, 301-310.

Revisiting Sen’s inequalities on order statistics (with K. Balasubramanian), Statistics & Probability Letters, 78, 616-621.

Nonparametric confidence intervals for quantile intervals and quantile differences based on record statistics (with J. Ahmadi), Statistics & Probability Letters, 78, 1236-1245.

A two-parameter generalized skew-normal distribution (with A. Jamalizadeh and J. Behboodian), Statistics & Probability Letters, 78, 1722-1726.

Prediction intervals for future records (with M. Z. Raqab), Statistics & Probability Letters, 78, 1955-1963.

A class of weighted Poisson processes (with T. Kozubowski), Statistics & Probability Letters, 78, 2346-2352.

Fisher information in hybrid censored data (with S. Park and G. Zheng), Statistics & Probability Letters, 78, 2781-2786.

On the maximum likelihood estimation of parameters of Weibull distribution based on complete and censored data (with M. Kateri), Statistics & Probability Letters, 78, 2971-2975.

Discussion: The t family and their close and distant relations (with A. Capitanio), Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, 37, 305-307.

On a generalization of bivariate Cauchy distribution (with A. Jamalizadeh), Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods, 37, 469-474.

The generalized Birnbaum-Saunders distribution and its theory, methodology, and application (with A. Sanhueza and V. Leiva), Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods, 37, 645-670.

Exact Bayesian variable sampling plans for the exponential distribution based on Type-I and Type-II hybrid censored samples (with C-T. Lin and Y-L. Huang), Communications in Statistics—Simulation and Computation, 37, 1101-116.

Statistical inference for start-up demonstration tests with rejection of units upon observing d failures (with P.S. Chan and H.K.T. Ng), Journal of Applied Statistics, 35, 867-878.

2007 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Permanents, order statistics, outliers, and robustness, Revista Matemática Complutense, 20, 7-107.

Testing exponentiality based on Kullback-Leibler information with progressively Type-II censored data (with A. Habibi Rad and N.R. Arghami), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 56, 301-307.

Homogeneity tests based on several progressively Type-II censored samples (with S. Alvarez-Andrade and L. Bordes), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 98, 1195-1213.

A new class of bivariate distributions and its mixture (with A. Sarhan), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 98, 1508-1527.

Point and interval estimation for a simple step-stress model with Type-II censoring (with D. Kundu, H.K.T. Ng and N. Kannan), Journal of Quality Technology, 39, 35-47.

Exact inference for a simple step-stress model with Type-II hybrid censored data from the exponential distribution (with Q. Xie), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137, 2543-2563.

Exact inference for a simple step-stress model with Type-I hybrid censored data from the exponential distribution (with Q. Xie), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137, 3268-3290.

Selecting the best population using a test for equality based on minimal Wilcoxon rank-sum precedence statistic (with H.K.T. Ng and S. Panchapakesan), Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 9, 263-305.

Optimal sample size allocation for tests with multiple levels of stress with extreme value regression (with H.K.T. Ng and P.S. Chan), Naval Research Logistics, 54, 237-249.

Extensions of functional LIL w.r.t. (r,p)—capacities on Wiener space (with X. Chen), Statistics & Probability Letters, 77, 468-473.

A vectorial notion of skewness and its use in testing for multivariate symmetry (with M.R. Brito and A.J. Quiroz), Communications in Statistics---Theory and Methods, 36, 1757-1767.

Acceptance sampling plans from truncated life tests based on the generalized Birnbaum–Saunders distribution (with V. Leiva and and J. López), Communications in Statistics—--Simulation and Computation, 36, 643-656.

2006 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Generalized gamma frailty models (with Y. Peng), Statistics in Medicine, 25, 2797-2816.

Confidence intervals for quantiles and tolerance intervals based on ordered ranked set samples (with T. Li), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 58, 757-777.

Connections between the resolutions of general two-level factorial designs (with P. Yang), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 58, 609-618.

Classification of three-word indicator functions of two-level factorial designs (with P. Yang), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 58, 595-608.

A new class of skew-Cauchy distributions (with J. Behboodian and A. Jamalizadeh), Statistics & Probability Letters, 76, 1488-1493.

Corrections on ``Optimal step-stress test under progressive Type-I censoring'' (with D. Han, A. Sen and E. Gouno), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 55, 613-614.

Monte Carlo methods for Bayesian inference on the linear hazard rate distribution (with C.-T. Lin and S.J.S. Wu),  Communications in Statistics---Simulation and Computation, 35, 575-590.

A nonparametric test for trend based on initial ranks (with G. Hofmann),  Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 76, 829-837.

Point and interval estimation for the two-parameter Birnbaum-Saunders distribution based on Type-II censored samples (with H.K.T. Ng and D. Kundu), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 50, 3222-3242.

Relations for order statistics from non-identical logistic random variables and assessment of the effect of multiple outliers on the bias of linear estimators (with A. Childs),  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 136, 2227-2253.

A nonparametric procedure based on early failures for selecting the best population using a test for equality (with H.K.T. Ng and S. Panchapakesan),  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 136, 2087-2111.

On the Fisher information in record data (with A. Stepanov), Statistics & Probability Letters, 76, 537-545.

Evaluating expectations of $L$-statistics by the Steffensen inequality (with T. Rychlik), Metrika, 63, 371-384.

Unified scheme for testing for outliers in linear models (with A. Childs and M.R. Srinivasan), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 76, 21-39.

Moments and properties of multiplicatively constrained bivariate lognormal distribution with applications to futures hedging (with D. Lien), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 136, 1349-1359.

Price limits and capital requirements of futures clearinghouses (with L. Shanker), European Journal of Operations Research, 168, 281-290.

On some predictors of times to failure of censored items in progressively censored samples (with I. Basak and P. Basak), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 50, 1313-1337.

Use of orthogonal polynomial approximations for inference in exponential distribution based on K-sample doubly Type-II censored data (with D. Sanjel), Communications in Statistics -- Theory and Methods, 35, 1671-1683.

Inference for log-gamma distribution based on progressively Type-II censored data (with C.-T. Lin and S.J.S. Wu),  Communications in Statistics --Theory and Methods, 35, 1271-1292.

2005 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

On the number and sum of near-record observations (with A. Stepanov and A. Pakes), Advances in Applied Probability, 37, 765-780.

Weighted precedence and maximal precedence tests and an extension to progressive censoring (with H.K.T. Ng), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 135, 197-221.

A note on the number of observations near an order statistic (with A. Stepanov), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 134, 1-14.

Distribution-free confidence intervals for quantile intervals based on current records (with J. Ahmadi), Statistics & Probability Letters, 75, 190-202.

An asymptotic approach to progressive censoring (with G. Hofmann, E. Cramer and G. Kunert), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 130, 207-227.

Characterization of hazard function factorization by Fisher information in minima and upper record values (with G. Hofmann and J. Ahmadi), Statistics & Probability Letters, 72, 51-57.

Optimal clearing margin, capital and price limits for futures clearinghouses (with L. Sanker), Journal of Banking & Finance, 29, 1611-1630.

Exact inference and prediction for K-sample exponential case under type-II censoring (with C.-T. Lin), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 75, 315-331.

BLUEs of parameters of generalized geometric distribution using ordered ranked set sampling (with T. Li), Communicatiions in Statistics---Simulation and Computation, 34, 253-266.

Point and interval estimation for bivariate normal distribution based on progressively Type-II censored data (with J.-A. Kim), Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods, 34, 1297-1347.

Preservation of some reliability properties by certain record statistics (with J. Ahmadi), Statistics, 39, 347-354.

Nonparametric tests for independence between lifetimes and covariates from censored bivariate normal samples (with J.-A. Kim), Communications in Statistics---Simulation and Computation, 34, 685-710.

Relation for joint densities of progressively censored order statistics (with E. Cramer and U. Kamps), Statistics, 39, 529-536.

On regression analysis with data cleaning via trimming, winsorization, and dichotomization (with D. Lien), Communications in Statistics—Simulation and Computation, 34, 839-849.

2004 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Optimal progressive censoring plans for theWeibull distribution (with H.K.T. Ng and P.S. Chan), Technometrics, 46, 470-481.

Two-sample scale tests for comparison of metabolic rates for styrene in previously exposed and unexposed groups (with C.-C. Chen and K.-Y. Wu), Statistics in Medicine, 23, 591-599.

A conversation with H.A. David (with H.N. Nagaraja), Statistical Science, 19, 720-734.

Two characterizations based on order statistics and records (with A. Stepanov), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 124, 273-287.

Fisher information in k-records (with G. Hofmann), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 56, 383-396.

A note on the paper of Khmaladze et al. (with A. Stepanov), Statistics & Probability Letters, 68, 415-419.

Confidence intervals for quantiles in terms of record range (with J. Ahmadi), Statistics & Probability Letters, 68, 395-405.

Goodness-of-fit tests based on spacings for progressively Type-II censored data from a general location-scale distribution (with H.K.T. Ng and N. Kannan), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 53, 349-356.

2003 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Bounds on expectation of order statistics from a finite population (with C. Charalambides and N. Papadatos), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 113, 569-588.

Some efficiency properties of best linear unbiased estimators (with C.R. Rao), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 113, 551-555.

Exact likelihood inference based on Type-I and Type-II hybrid censored samples from the exponential distribution (with A. Childs, B. Chandrasekar and D. Kundu), Annals of the
Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 55, 319-330.

Simple characterizations of Student’s t2-distribution (with V.B. Nevzorov and M. Ahsanullah), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D, 52, 395-400.

Existence and uniqueness of the MLEs for normal distribution based on general progressively Type-II censored samples (with J. Mi), Statistics & Probability Letters, 64, 407-414.

Exact distribution and Fisher information of weak record values (with A.V. Stepanov and G. Hofmann), Statistics & Probability Letters, 64, 69-81.

A characterization by linearity of the regression function based on order statistics (with I.S. Akhundov), Statistics & Probability Letters, 63, 435-440.

Conditional correlation analysis of order statistics from bivariate normal distribution with an application to evaluating inventory effects in futures market (with D. Lien), Statistics &
Probability Letters, 63, 249-257.

Robust estimation under progressive censoring (with I. Basak), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 44, 349-376.

2002 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

How are moments and moments of spacings related to distribution functions? (with M.C. Jones), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 103, 377-390.

On a multiparameter version of Tukey’s linear sensitivity measure and its properties (with B. Chandrasekar), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 54, 796-805.

The use of spacings in the estimation of a scale parameter (with N. Papadatos), Statistics & Probability Letters, 57, 193-204.

Estimation of parameters from progressively censored data using EM algorithm (with H.K.T. Ng and P.S. Chan), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 39, 371-386.

Series approximations for moments of order statistics using MAPLE (with A. Childs), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 38, 331-347.

2001 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Order-preserving property of maximum likelihood estimator (with J. Mi), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 98, 89-99.

A note on the variance of a lightly trimmed mean when outliers are present (with H.A. David), Statistics & Probability Letters, 55, 339-343.

Bounds for means and variances of progressive Type II censored order statistics (with E. Cramer and U. Kamps), Statistics & Probability Letters, 54, 301-315.

2000 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Simple efficient estimation for the three-parameter gamma distribution (with J. Wang), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 85, 115-126.

Empirical Bayes estimation for truncation parameters (with Y. Ma), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 84, 111-120.

Start-up demonstration tests with rejection of units upon observing d failures (with P.S. Chan), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 52, 184-196.

Some approximations to the multivariate hypergeometric distribution with applications to hypothesis testing (with A. Childs), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 35, 137-154.

Reliability sampling plans for lognormal distribution, based on progressively-censored samples (with U. Balasooriya), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 49, 199-203.

Random combinations with bounded differences and cospan (with M.V. Koutras), The Fibonacci Quarterly, 38, 145-156.

1999 (back to Selected Journal Articles)
Convolution of geometrics and a reliability problem (with A. Sen), Statistics & Probability Letters, 43, 421-426.

1998 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Some properties of progressive censored order statistics from arbitrary and uniform distributions with applications to inference and simulation (with R. Aggarwala), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 70, 35-49.

A note on relationships between moments, central moments and cumulants from multivariate distributions (with N.L. Johnson and S. Kotz), Statistics & Probability Letters, 39, 49-54.

On the normal record values and associated inference (with P.S. Chan), Statistics & Probability Letters, 39, 73-80.

1997 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

A note on the best linear unbiased estimation based on order statistics (with C.R. Rao), The American Statistician, 51, 181-185.

A useful property of best linear unbiased predictors with applications to life-testing (with N. Doganaksoy), The American Statistician, 51, 22-28.

Joint distributions of numbers of success-runs and failures until the first consecutive k successes in a binary sequence, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 49, 519-529.

Start-up demonstration tests under Markov dependence model with corrective actions (with S.G. Mohanty and S. Aki), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 49, 155-169.

1996 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Sooner and later waiting time problems for success and failure runs in higher order Markov dependent trials (with S. Aki and S.G. Mohanty), Annals of the Institute of Statistical
Mathematics, 48, 773-787.

Recurrence relations for single and product moments of progressive Type-II right censored order statistics from exponential and truncated exponential distributions (with R. Aggarwala), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 48, 757-771.

Relationships for moments of order statistics from the right-truncated generalized half logistic distribution (with R. Aggarwala), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 48,
519-534.

Conditional inference procedures for the Laplace distribution based on Type-II right censored samples (with A. Childs), Statistics & Probability Letters, 31, 31-39.

Product moments of order statistics and the variance of a lightly trimmed mean (with H.A. David), Statistics & Probability Letters, 29, 85-87.

Empirical Bayes rules for selecting the most and least probable multivariate hypergeometric event (with Y. Ma), Statistics & Probability Letters, 27, 181-188.

Best linear unbiased and maximum likelihood estimation for exponential distributions under general progressive Type-II censored samples (with R.A. Sandhu), Sankhyā, Series B, 58, 1-9.

1995 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Comment by Katz and Reply on “Binomial and Negative Binomial Analogues Under Correlated Bernoulli Trials” (with K. Balasubramanian and R. Viveros), The American Statistician, 49, 325-326.

A simple simulational algorithm for generating progressive Type-II censored samples (with R.A. Sandhu), The American Statistician, 49, 229-230.

A general purpose approximate goodness-of-fit test (with G. Chen), Journal of Quality Technology, 27, 154-161.

On a class of multivariate distributions closed under concomitance of order statistics (with K. Balasubramanian), Statistics & Probability Letters, 23, 239-242.

Start-up demonstration tests under correlation and corrective action (with K. Balasubramanian and R. Viveros), Naval Research Logistics, 42, 1271-1276.

1994 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Interval estimation of parameters of life from progressively censored data (with R. Viveros), Technometrics, 36, 84-91.

Binomial and negative binomial analogues under Markovian Bernoulli trials (with K. Balasubramanian and R. Viveros), The American Statistician, 48, 243-247.

Equivalence of relations for order statistics for exchangeable and arbitrary cases (with K. Balasubramanian), Statistics & Probability Letters, 21, 405-407.

Asymptotic best linear unbiased estimation for the log-gamma distribution (with P.S. Chan), Sankhyā, Series B, 56, 314-322.

Identities for order statistics from non-independent non- identical variables (with K. Balasubramanian and H.J. Malik), Sankhyā, Series B, 56, 67-75.

1993 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Duality principle in order statistics (with K. Balasubramanian), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 55, 687-691.

Relationships between moments of two related sets of order statistics and some extensions (with Z. Govindarajulu and K. Balasubramanian), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 45, 243-247.

Statistical inference from start-up demonstration test data (with R. Viveros), Journal of Quality Technology, 25, 119-130.

A simple application of binomial - negative binomial relationship in the derivation of sharp bounds for moments of order statistics based on greatest convex minorants, Statistics &
Probability Letters, 18, 301-305.

Sooner and later waiting time problems for Markovian Bernoulli trials (with K. Balasubramanian and R. Viveros), Statistics & Probability Letters, 18, 153-161.
Multivariate normal distribution and multivariate order statistics induced by ordering linear combinations, Statistics & Probability Letters, 17, 343-350.

A log-concavity property of probability of occurrence of exactly r arbitrary events (with K. Balasubramanian), Statistics & Probability Letters, 16, 249-251.

Equivalence of Hartley-David-Gumbel and Papathanasiou bounds and some further remarks (with K. Balasubramanian), Statistics & Probability Letters, 16, 39-41.

1992 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

A characterization of exponential distributions through conditional independence (with T.C. Liang), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 54, 269-271.

A robust method of estimation based on the MML estimators for a simple linear regression model (with R.S. Ambagaspitiya), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 30, 267-279.

General relations and identities for order statistics from non-independent non-identical variables (with S.M. Bendre and H.J. Malik), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 44, 177-183.

Relations for single and product moments of record values from Gumbel distribution (with M. Ahsanullah and P.S. Chan), Statistics & Probability Letters, 15, 223-227.

Indicator method for a recurrence relation for order statistics (with K. Balasubramanian), Statistics & Probability Letters, 14, 67-69.

Estimation for the scaled half logistic distribution under Type II censoring (with P.S. Chan), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 13, 123-141.

1991 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Approximate MLEs for the location and scale parameters of the extreme value distribution with censoring (with J. Varadan), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 40, 146-151.

Approximate MLEs for the location and scale parameters of the half-logistic distribution with Type-II right-censoring (with K.H.T.Wong), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 40, 140-145.

1990 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Approximate maximum likelihood estimation for a generalized logistic distribution, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 26, 221-236.

Improving the Hartley-David-Gumbel bound for the mean of extreme order statistics, Statistics & Probability Letters, 9, 291-294.

A comparative study of various tests for the equality of two population variances (with C.W. Ma), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 35, 41-89.

1989 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Recurrence relations among moments of order statistics from two related sets of independent and non-identically distributed random variables, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 41, 323-329.

1988 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Recurrence relations for order statistics from n independent and non-identically distributed random variables, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 40, 273-277.

Robust classification procedures based on dichotomous and continuous variables (with M. L. Tiku), Journal of Classification, 5, 53-80.
 

1987 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Moments of order statistics from truncated log-logistic distribution (with H.J. Malik), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 17, 251-267.

1986 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

A note on moments of order statistics (with H.J. Malik), The American Statistician, 40, 147-148.

On the moments of order statistics from the doubly truncated logistic distribution (with S. Kocherlakota), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 13, 117-129.

On the errors of misclassification based on dichotomous and normal variables (with S. Kocherlakota and K. Kocherlakota), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 38, 529-538.

Effects of nonnormality on X charts: Single assignable cause model (with S. Kocherlakota), Sankhyā, Series B, 48, 439-444.

One- and two-sided sampling plans based on the exponential distribution (with S. Kocherlakota), Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 33, 513-522.

1985 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

On the double Weibull distribution: Order statistics and estimation (with S. Kocherlakota), Sankhyā, Series B, 47, 161-178.

Order statistics from the half logistic distribution, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 20, 287-309.

1984 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Approximating the sum of squares of normal scores, Algorithm AS 200, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 33, 242-245.

Product moments of order statistics from the doubly truncated exponential distribution (with P.C. Joshi), Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 31, 27-31.

1983 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Bounds for the moments of extreme order statistics for large samples (with P.C. Joshi), Mathematische Operationsforschung und Statistik, Series Statistics, 14, 387-396.
 

1982 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

Recurrence relations and identities for the product moments of order statistics (with P.C. Joshi), Sankhyā, Series B, 44, 39-49.

1981 (back to Selected Journal Articles)

An identity for the moments of normal order statistics with applications (with P.C. Joshi), Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 203-213.

A note on order statistics from Weibull distribution (with P.C. Joshi), Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 121-122.