In this paper, we use joint and conditional distributions of order statistics from a trivariate normal distribution to obtain closed expressions for reliability measures such as mean residual lifetime for systems with three dependent components with normal lifetimes.

In this note we address the problem of finding the direction with maximal skewness for a random vector that follows a multivariate skew-t distribution. The result relies on the well-known representation of the multivariate skew-t distribution as a scale mixture of skew-normal multivariate...

This paper describes a threshold classification with <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$K$$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <mi>K</mi> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation> populations whose membership category is associated with the threshold process of a latent variable. It is seen that the optimal procedure (Bayes procedure) for the classification involves a nonlinear classification rule and...</equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation>

In this paper, we introduce a new class of multivariate distributions as an extension of the normal variance–mean mixture distributions class. The new class results from a variance-mean mixture of the skew normal and the generalized inverse Gaussian distributions. The new class is very...