Continuous Bivariate Distributions

This volume which is completely dedicated to continuous bivariate dist- butions describes in detail their forms properties dependence structures computation and applications. It is a comprehensive and thorough revision ofanearliereditionof\ContinuousBivariateDistributions Emphasizing- plications\ by T.P. Hutchinson and C.D. Lai published in 1990 by Rumsby Scienti?c Publishing Adelaide Australia. It has been nearly two decades since the publication of that book and much has changed in this area of research during this period. Generali- tions have been considered for many known standard bivariate distributions. Skewed versions of di?erent bivariate distributions have been proposed and appliedtomodeldatawithskewnessdepartures.Byspecifyingthetwocon- tional distributions rather than the simple speci?cation of one marginal and one conditional distribution several general families of conditionally spe- ?ed bivariate distributions have been derived and studied at great length. Finally bivariate distributions generated by a variety of copulas and their ?exibility (in terms of accommodating association/correlation) and str- tural properties have received considerable attention. All these developments andadvancesnecessitatedthepresentvolumeandhavethusresultedinas- stantially di?erent version than the last edition both in terms of coverage and topics of discussion.