| Preface | 6 |
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| Contents | 8 |
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| Univariate Distributions | 36 |
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| Introduction | 36 |
| Notation and Definitions | 37 |
| Notation | 37 |
| Explanations | 38 |
| Characteristic Function | 38 |
| Cumulant Generating Function | 39 |
| Some Measures of Shape Characteristics | 40 |
| Location and Scale | 40 |
| Skewness and Kurtosis | 40 |
| Tail Behavior | 41 |
| Some Multiparameter Systems ofUnivariate Distributions | 41 |
| Reliability Classes | 42 |
| Normal Distribution and Its Transformations | 42 |
| Normal Distribution | 42 |
| Lognormal Distribution | 43 |
| Truncated Normal | 43 |
| Johnson's System | 43 |
| Box--Cox Power Transformations to Normality | 44 |
| g and h Families of Distributions | 44 |
| Efron's Transformation | 45 |
| Distribution of a Ratio | 45 |
| Compound Normal Distributions | 45 |
| Beta Distribution | 46 |
| The First Kind | 46 |
| Uniform Distribution | 47 |
| Symmetric Beta Distribution | 47 |
| Inverted Beta Distribution | 47 |
| Exponential, Gamma, Weibull, and Stacy Distributions | 48 |
| Exponential Distribution | 48 |
| Gamma Distribution | 49 |
| Chi-Squared and Chi Distributions | 49 |
| Weibull Distribution | 50 |
| Stacy Distribution | 50 |
| Comments on Skew Distributions | 51 |
| Compound Exponential Distributions | 51 |
| Aging Distributions | 52 |
| Marshall and Olkin's Family of Distributions | 52 |
| Families of Generalized Weibull Distributions | 53 |
| Logistic, Laplace, and Cauchy Distributions | 54 |
| Logistic Distribution | 54 |
| Laplace Distribution | 54 |
| The Generalized Error Distribution | 55 |
| Cauchy Distribution | 55 |
| Extreme-Value Distributions | 55 |
| Type 1 | 55 |
| Type 2 | 56 |
| Type 3 | 56 |
| Pareto Distribution | 56 |
| Pearson System | 57 |
| Burr System | 58 |
| t- and F-Distributions | 58 |
| t-Distribution | 58 |
| F-Distribution | 59 |
| The Wrapped t Family of Circular Distributions | 59 |
| Noncentral Distributions | 60 |
| Skew Distributions | 60 |
| Skew-Normal Distribution | 60 |
| Skew t-Distributions | 61 |
| Skew-Cauchy Distribution | 62 |
| Jones' Family of Distributions | 63 |
| Some Lesser-Known Distributions | 63 |
| Inverse Gaussian Distribution | 63 |
| Meixner Hypergeometric Distribution | 64 |
| Hyperbolic Distributions | 64 |
| Stable Distributions | 64 |
| References | 65 |
| Bivariate Copulas | 68 |
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| Introduction | 68 |
| Basic Properties | 69 |
| Further Properties of Copulas | 70 |
| Survival Copula | 71 |
| Archimedean Copula | 72 |
| Extreme-Value Copulas | 73 |
| Archimax Copulas | 74 |
| Gaussian, t-, and Other Copulas of theElliptical Distributions | 75 |
| Order Statistics Copula | 76 |
| Polynomial Copulas | 76 |
| Approximation of a Copula by a Polynomial Copula | 78 |
| Measures of Dependence Between Two Variables with a Given Copula | 79 |
| Kendall's Tau | 79 |
| Spearman's Rho | 80 |
| Geometry of Correlation Under a Copula | 80 |
| Measure Based on Gini's Coefficient | 81 |
| Tail Dependence Coefficients | 81 |
| A Local Dependence Measure | 83 |
| Tests of Dependence and Inferences | 83 |
| ``Concepts of Dependence | 83 |