BARRY C. ARNOLD is Professor in the Department of Statistics at University of California, Riverside. He is a Fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. His publications include another Wiley book, A First Course in Order Statistics.

N. BALAKRISHNAN is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, Canada. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. His publications include other Wiley books: A First Course in Order Statistics, Continuous Univariate Distributions - 1 & 2, and Discrete Multivariate Distributions.

H. N. NAGARAJA is Professor in the Department of Statistics at Ohio State University, Columbus. His publications include another Wiley book, A First Course in Order Statistics.