Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan is a distinguished university professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is an internationally recognized expert on statistical distribution theory, and a book-powerhouse with over 24 authored books, four authored handbooks, and 30 edited books under his name. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Communications in Statistics published by Taylor & Francis. He was also the Editor-in-Chief for the revised version of Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences published by John Wiley & Sons. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In 2016, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. In 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Erhard Cramer is a Professor in the Institute for Statistics at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany. He has numerous publications to his credit and his research interests include order statistics, generalized order statistics, censoring methodology, B-spline theory, and statistical inference. He is a coauthor of the book The Art of Progressive Censoring: Applications to Reliability and Quality published by Birkhäuser, Boston, in 2014.

Debasis Kundu is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, which he joined in 1990. He had previously worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA, after completing his PhD in Statistics at Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research interests include statistical signal processing, nonlinear regression, distribution theory, statistical computing, and reliability and survival analysis.