Summary

Provides extensive coverage of all aspects, making available for the first time in book form, significant results and developments previously found only in journals and technical reports. Presents an expositions of basic formulations (with several modifications); descriptions of various procedures applicable in different contexts are given along with information about the tables required for their implementation. Places equal emphasis on the subset selection and the indifference-zone formulations; includes related problems such as estimation of the unknown ordered parameters. Applications of all important procedures are illustrated with examples. Also includes a comprehensive bibliography as an aid in delineating future directions.