Gamma distributions are some of the most popular models for hydrological processes. In this paper, a very flexible family which contains the gamma distribution as a particular case is introduced. Evidence of flexibility is shown by examining the shape of its probability density function (pdf). A...

In this paper, we consider the Bayesian analysis of the Marshall–Olkin bivariate Weibull distribution. It is a singular distribution whose marginals are Weibull distributions. This is a generalization of the Marshall–Olkin bivariate exponential distribution. It is well known that the maximum...

For a class of multivariate skew normal distributions, the noncentral skew chi-square distribution is studied. The necessary and sufficient conditions under which a sequence of quadratic forms is generalized noncentral skew chi-square distributed random variables are obtained. Several examples...

In this paper we consider the problem of testing the hypothesis about the sub-mean vector. For this propose, the asymptotic expansion of the null distribution of Rao's U-statistic under a general condition is obtained up to order of n-1. The same problem in the k-sample case is also...

In this paper, we define a new class of multivariate skew-normal distributions. Its properties are studied. In particular we derive its density, moment generating function, the first two moments and marginal and conditional distributions. We illustrate the contours of a bivariate density as well...

A purely frequentist development of James-Stein shrinkage estimators of the multivariate normal mean under quadratic loss functions is presented, which allows for an intuitive interpretation of these estimators as best estimators of best linear 'estimators' of the mean vector.