New Advances in Distribution Theory and Its Applications

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the field of research relating to distribution theory has weakened due to the countless proposals for “new” distributions, which, in many cases, are now built with standardized techniques, paying particular attention to elegance and mathematical rigor at the cost of greater complexity, which reduces the interpretability, for example, of parameters, without guaranteeing great flexibility with respect to the distributions already present in the literature.  

The purpose of this Special Issue is to stimulate researchers to propose high-quality original articles that provide significant contributions to statistical distribution theory and its applications, with particular attention to the flexibility of models and the interpretability of parameters (or their transformations). In this context, papers suggesting models whose genesis is attributable to specific mechanisms or characteristics related to the context of analysis, general frameworks of families of distribution functions, motivated reparameterizations that increase the interpretability of models, regressive models on characteristics and/or indicators of specific interest, and original applications on real data are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Filippo Domma
Dr. Francesca Condino
Guest Editors

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