The international conference:
Ordered Statistical Data: Approximations, Bounds and Characterizations will be held in Izmir on 15-18 June, 2005. The meeting will be devoted mostly to mathematical aspects of order statistics, records and their generalizations. It is intended to be the continuation of conferences organized in 2002, 2003 and 2004 in S. Banach International Mathematical Center, Warsaw, Poland. At Izmir University of Economics we are planning a wider meeting bringing together researchers involved in the area from all over the world. Since the field is quite specialized and the number of participants for the main section is expected to be about 50, we have also included separate sections for other topics of statistical theory and inferences. We strongly encourage you to share your interest and recent contributions with others by active participation during the meeting, in particular by presenting a talk.

Topics of the conference are:
- Distribution theory of ordered random variables, order statistics, records, progressive Type II censored order statistics, generalized order statistics etc.
- Models of ordered random variables from discrete distributions
- Order statistics in reliability theory
- Bounds and characterizations on order statistics and records
- Recurrence relations for moments of order statistics, records and their generalizations
- Characterization of distributions through the properties of ordered random variables
- Concomitants of order statistics, records, progressive censored Type II order statistics and generalized order statistics
- Multivariate orderings
- Stochastic orderings, results on comparisons of ordered statistical data
- Ordered statistical data in statistical inference
- Ordered random variables for finite populations
- Asymptotic theory of order statistics, records and their generalizations
Etc.

Other Topics:
- Distribution theory
- Dependence and aging properties of bivariate and multivariate random variables
- Stochastic orderings
- Characterizations of probability distributions
- Limit theorems
- Linear models
- Statistical inference
- Stochastic models
- Robust statistics
Etc.

Scientific Committee:
B.C. Arnold (University of California, Riverside, USA)
M. Ahsanullah (Rider University, Lawrenceville, USA)
N. Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
I. Bayramoglu (Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey)
U. Kamps (Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany)
V. Nevzorov (St. Petersburg University, St.Petersburg, Russia)
F. Lòpez-Blázquez (Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain)
T. Rychlik (Polska Akademia Nauk, Torun, Poland)
J. Wesolowski (Politechnika Warszawska, Warszawa, Poland)

Organizing Committee:
I. Bayramoglu, M.C. Dincer, S. Eryilmaz, U. Sönmezdag, M. Bekçi, T. Ozkal, S.Gümgüm, I. Sager

Any correspondence regarding the conference should be sent to the following address:

Prof.Dr.Ismihan Bayramoglu, Izmir University of Economics, Sakarya Caddesi 156, 35330, Balcova, Izmir, Turkey.
Alternatively you can use the e-mail addresses:
ismihan.bayramoglu@ieu.edu.tr,ibayramov@yahoo.com,osd-2005@ieu.edu.tr