1. Preface for the Special Issue on Distribution Theory, Estimation, and Inference

   • Carlos A. Coelho
   • Filipe J. Marques
   • Barry C. Arnold

   EditorialNotes 01 March 2015 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Likelihood Testing With Censored and Missing Duration Data

   • Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan
   • Milan Stehlík

   OriginalPaper 01 March 2015 Pages: 2 - 22

3. Small-Sample Tests for the Equality of Two Normal Cumulative Probabilities, Coefficients of Variation, and Sharpe Ratios

   • A. J. Hayter
   • Jongphil Kim

   OriginalPaper 01 March 2015 Pages: 23 - 36

4. Near-Exact Distributions for the Likelihood Ratio Test Statistic for Testing Multisample Independence—The Real and Complex Cases

   • Filipe J. Marques
   • Carlos A. Coelho

   OriginalPaper 01 March 2015 Pages: 37 - 58

5. On the Computation of Entropy Prior Complexity and Marginal Prior Distribution for the Bernoulli Model

   • N. Balakrishnan
   • C. Koukouvinos
   • C. Parpoula

   OriginalPaper 01 March 2015 Pages: 59 - 72

6. Fréchet and Inverse Gamma Distributions: Correct Selection and Minimum Sample Size to Discriminate Them

   • Rodrigo B. Silva
   • Marcelo Bourguignon
   • Gauss M. Cordeiro

   OriginalPaper 01 March 2015 Pages: 73 - 87

7. An Extension of the Birnbaum-Saunders Distribution as a Model for Fatigue Failure Due to Multiple Cracks

   • Ricardo Leiva
   • Anuradha Roy
   • Juan Carlos Pina

   OriginalPaper 01 March 2015 Pages: 88 - 121

8. A Generalization of the Exponential-Logarithmic Distribution

   • Vasileios Pappas
   • Konstantinos Adamidis
   • Sotirios Loukas

   OriginalPaper 01 March 2015 Pages: 122 - 133

9. Beta Regression Models: Joint Mean and Variance Modeling

   • Edilberto Cepeda-Cuervo

   OriginalPaper 01 March 2015 Pages: 134 - 145

10. Logarithmic Quantile Estimation for Rank Statistics

    • Manfred Denker
    • Lucia Tabacu

    OriginalPaper 01 March 2015 Pages: 146 - 170

11. Estimation of the Shape Parameter of a Generalized Pareto Distribution Based on a Transformation to Pareto Distributed Variables

    • J. Martin van Zyl

    OriginalPaper 01 March 2015 Pages: 171 - 183

12. Modeling Extreme Events: Sample Fraction Adaptive Choice in Parameter Estimation

    • M. Manuela Neves
    • M. Ivette Gomes
    • Dora Prata Gomes

    OriginalPaper 01 March 2015 Pages: 184 - 199

13. Revisiting the Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a Positive Extreme Value Index

    • Frederico Caeiro
    • M. Ivette Gomes

    OriginalPaper 01 March 2015 Pages: 200 - 218