Welcome to OSD2018

Continuing the series of Conferences in Mysore, India (2000), Warsaw, Poland (2002–04), Izmir, Turkey (2005), Mashad, Iran (2006), Amman, Jordan (2007), Aachen, Germany (2008), Zagazig, Egypt (2010), Murcia, Spain (2012), Będlewo, Poland (2014), Piraeus, Greece (2016), the Statistic and Operational Research Department of the University of Cádiz will host the 13th International Conference on Ordered Statistical Data OSD 2018. The meeting will be held at Cádiz (Spain), 22nd – 25th, May 2018 at the Conference Room of the Faculty of Nursing and Physiotherapy (a building of the University of Cádiz located in the main avenue of the town).

The conference will bring forth recent advances and trends in the mathematical theory of ordered statistical data, in order to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from all over the world, and contribute to the further development of the field.

The meeting will be dedicated to all aspects of ordered statistical data, including:

• Approximations
• Bounds
• Characterisations
• Recurrence Relations
• Distribution Theory and Probability Models
• Stochastic Orders
• Reliability Theory and Survival Analysis
• Censoring
• Concomitants
• Statistical Interference
• Applications of Ordered Data
• Information and Entropies
• Nonparametric Methods
• Ranked Set Sampling
• Asymptotic Theory