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Order Statistics naturally appear in real life whenever we need to arrange observations in ascending order; say for example prices arranged from smallest to largest, scores scored by a player in last ten innings from smallest to largest and so on. The study of order statistics needs special considerations due to their natural dependence. The study of order statistics has attracted many statistician in the past. Formerly, order statistics are defined in the following.
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Shahbaz, M.Q., Ahsanullah, M., Hanif Shahbaz, S., Al-Zahrani, B.M. (2016). Order Statistics. In: Ordered Random Variables: Theory and Applications. Atlantis Studies in Probability and Statistics, vol 9. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-225-0_2
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