Chin-Diew Lai is a Professor of Statistics at Massey University, New Zealand. Dr Lai has published over 100 research articles and four monographs, including two published by Springer: “Stochastic Ageing and Dependence for Reliability” co-authored by M Xie, and “Continuous Bivariate Distributions,” 2nd edition, co-authored by N Balakrishnan.

"This brief monograph attempts to summarize the up-to-date status of the research and development of generalized Weibull distribution. ... This book is a great resource for researchers in theory of statistical distributions, applied statisticians and reliability engineers who want a bird's eye perspective of the most up-to-date synopsis on generalizations and modifications of the Weibull distribution." (Hon Keung Tony Ng, Technometrics, Vol. 57 (1), February, 2015)

• ​1. Weibull Distribution.- 2.Generalized Weibull Distributions.- 3.Models Involving Two or More Weibull Distributions.- 4.Discrete Weibull Distributions and Their Generalizations.- References.- Index.