Yup. Thanks.

> known as the empirical distribution

Yup, and I wrote:

"out in a tail of the empirical distribution"

Yup, "rank" tests, "permutation" tests: With my TeX markup:

E.\ L.\ Lehmann, {\it Nonparametrics: Statistical Methods Based on Ranks,\/}

And, yup, again with my TeX markup,

Bradley Efron, {\it The Jackknife, the Bootstrap, and Other Resampling Plans,\/}

Last time I knew, Roger Wets was at UCSD. He read one of my papers and suggested JOTA where I did publish it!