In this paper, we examine the Pitman closeness of record statistics to the population quantiles of a location-scale family of distributions and study its monotonicity properties. Even though in general it depends on the parent distribution, exact expressions are derived for the required...

The hazard function is an important characteristic for the analysis of reliability data. It is therefore of interest to see under what conditions it can be expressed as the product of a function of the variable and a function of the parameter. We show that such a factorization can be...

In this article, outer and inner prediction intervals for future record intervals as well as record spacings are derived based on observed order statistics from the same parent distribution. These intervals are exact and are distribution-free in that they do not depend on the sampling...

In this paper, the largest and the smallest observations are considered, at the time when a new record of either kind (upper or lower) occurs based on a sequence of independent random variables with identical continuous distributions. These statistics are referred to as current upper and lower...

In the two-sample prediction problem, record values from the present sample may be used as predictors of order statistics from a future sample. In this paper, we investigate the nearness of record statistics (upper and lower) to order statistics from a location-scale family of distributions in...