“…Since then, numerous parametric and nonparametric inferential procedures based on ranked set samples have been developed in the literature. The reader is referred to, among others, Takahasi and Wakimoto (1968), Dell and Clutter (1972), Stokes (1977Stokes ( , 1980aStokes ( ,b, 1995, Chuiv and Sinha (1998), Stokes and Sager (1988), and Chen (1999and Chen ( , 2000a. For a comprehensive review of various developments on ranked set sampling, we refer the reader to Patil et al (1999) and the monograph by Chen et al (2004).…”