Life Distributions Structure of Nonparametric, Semiparametric, and Parametric Families

From the reviews:

"Life Distributions is supported by an extensive list of references, as well as a very helpful author and subject index. This book will become a standard reference on life distributions. Both academics and practitioners will no doubt enjoy it. It can serve as a textbook for presenting distributions and their properties, but more likely it will be used as a kind of encyclopedia for life distributions. " (Mario V. Wüthrich, American Statistical Association, JASA, March 2009, Vol. 104, No. 485)

"Readership: Researchers, graduate students in statistics, mathematics or engineering … . The purpose of the book is to study and classify various distributions for nonnegative random variables. … The book gives an excellent survey of various types of families of distributions and provides a wide range of topics and examples. The proof of the results is given whenever needed. … The value of the book lays in its encyclopedic nature: it gives a survey of hundreds of classifications and ordering methods." (E. Omey, Kwantitatieve Methoden, March, 2008)

"The authors and their collaborators have a distinguished track record of research in this field and the book reflects this. For the student … the book provides a wealth of material both for background facts and for further research. For the working statistician it explains connections between distributions that might be adopted as models for data … ." (Martin Crowder, International Statistical Reviews, Vol. 76 (2), 2008)

"The book under review is concerned mainly with univariate probability distributions for non-negative data. … This is a reasonably well researched, fairly up-to-date book. The book emphasizes the interrelationship between various distributions covered here. … A reader who has had a first course in probability and probability calculus will have no difficulty reading the book." (Gopalakrishnan Asha, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2009 e)