The novel Balakrishnan skew-normal distribution was introduced in 2008. The only known scheme for simulating from this distribution is based on acceptance/rejection sampling. Here, we introduce an alternative scheme that is more efficient. We also derive various stochastic representations for...

On the basis of some characteristics such as quantile function and skewness coefficient of th upper/lower record of a given absolutely continuous distribution, as well as a confidence interval for th upper/lower record statistic of a two-parameter Weibull model, a point estimator for shape...

Skewed symmetric distributions have attracted a great deal of attention in the last few years. One of them, the skewed Cauchy distribution suffers from limited applicability because of the lack of finite moments. This article proposes an alternative to the skewed Cauchy distribution, which we...