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...

Researchers have shown that the optimally weighted z-test, where the weights are the standardized expected difference in means, is more powerful than other methods when combining p-values from independent studies. However, in practice the effect for each independent study is usually unknown,...