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AUTHORS' REJOINDER

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2013

N. Balakrishnan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaL8S 4K1; Department of Statistics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia E-mail: bala@mcmaster.ca
Peng Zhao
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China E-mail: zhaop07@gmail.com

Extract

First of all, we express our sincere thanks to all the discussants for their valuable comments and suggestions as well as for their own significant contributions to the area of order statistics in general, and to the topic of stochastic comparison in particular. We shall now provide our response to the comments and suggestions of all the discussants.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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