Runs and Scans with Applications

N. BALAKRISHNAN, PhD, is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is also the author of A First Course in Order Statistics and four volumes of the Distributions in Statistics series (all from Wiley).

MARKOS V. KOUTRAS, PhD, is Professor of Statistics at the University of Piraeus in Greece, where he researches applied probability, reliability, and distribution theory.