Methods and Applications of Statistics in Engineering, Quality Control, and the Physical Sciences

N. BALAKRISHNAN, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University (Canada). He is coeditor of Wiley's Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second Edition and also serves as Editor in Chief of Communications in Statistics. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Dr. Balakrishnan is the coauthor of Precedence-Type Tests and Applications and A Primer on Statistical Distributions, both published by Wiley.