“…Pledger and Proschan [32] pioneered comparisons on the order statistics arising from heterogeneous independent exponential variables. After that, many researchers have paid attention to this research direction and its generalization, to name a few, including Balakrishnan and Torrado; Cali, Longobardi, and Navarro; Di Crescenzo; Mesfioui, Kayid, and Izadkhah; Navarro and Spizzichino; Navarro, Torrado, and del Aguila; Proschan and Sethuraman; Zhang and Zhao; Zhang, Amini-Seresht, and Zhao; Zhang et al [5,8,11,26,28,29,33,[37][38][39][40], and a comprehensive review article by Balakrishnan and Zhao [6].…”