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Special Acknowledgement

The materials (data sets, partial tables, equations or other mathematical

expressions) taken from:

(i) Dahiya and Gurland (1972); Engelhardt and Bain (1977); Harterand Moore (1968); Keating, Glaser and Ketchum (1990); Proschan

(1963); Schűpbach and Hűsler (1983) - have been reprinted with

permission from the relevant journals. Copyright by the American

Statistical Association. All rights reserved.

(ii) Lockhart and Stephens (1994) - have been reprinted with permis-

sion from the Royal Statistical Society, London, UK.

(iii) Coles (1989) - have been reprinted with permission from the Oxford

University Press, Oxford, UK.

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