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AUTHORS' REJOINDER

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2013

N. Balakrishnan  and
Peng Zhao
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: [email protected]
Peng Zhao
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China E-mail: [email protected]
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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
Information
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , October 2013 , pp. 467 - 469
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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