Conditional Order Statistics and Conditional Spacings

This book mainly provides readers with shastic and statistical properties of conditional order statistics and conditional spacings as well as some shastic properties of load-sharing systems. The conditional lifetime is widely used in survival analysis and reliability-related areas, and the conditional spacing is very important in goodness-of-fit, Type-II censoring and life tests etc.. Although the main focus in the text is on this crucial characteristic, our presentation cannot be restricte...