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Professors Balakrishnan and Zhao have written an excellent survey on the recent developments of stochastic comparisons of order statistics, which cover almost every aspect of ordering properties of order statistics from both continuous and discrete heterogeneous populations. My discussion will be limited to the skewness of order statistics and order statistics from heterogeneous populations with different shape parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

First of all, we express our sincere thanks to all the discussants for their valuable comments and suggestions as well as for their own significant contributions to the area of order statistics in general, and to the topic of stochastic comparison in particular. We shall now provide our response to the comments and suggestions of all the discussants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]