Statistical methods serve as valuable tools in business, health and industry. Statistical problems formulated in different ways allow the user to make appropriate types of decisions in these applications. This volume contains contributions from acknowledged experts in different aspects of statistical theory and applications with a goal to:


Review recent developments.
Focus on and highlight some new results and applications.
Suggests some interesting possible new directions for research.



This carefully edited volume, divided into seven parts – General, Distribution Theory, Inference, Outliers and Robust Inference, Design of Experiments, Survival Analysis and Reliability and Applied Probability will benefit both the student and researcher.