An encyclopaedic coverage of the literature in the area of ranking and selection procedures. It also deals with the estimation of unknown ordered parameters. This book can serve as a text for a graduate topics course in ranking and selection. It is also a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners.

Contents: Statement of the statistical problem S atistical assumptions The experimenter's goal, specification, and requirement Procedure D and the new computing formulae Description of Procedure D Definition of symbols The sampling, stopping, and terminal de cision rules Computation of the stopping statistic Use of Procedure D (method B) with various experimental designs Simplified computing formulae Numerical example Monte Carlo sampling results with Procedure D Description of the sampling procedure Sampling results Discussion of sampling results.