Resumen de Marshall and Olkin's Distributions

Saralees Nadarajah

• A review is provided of the continuous and discrete distributions introduced by the eminent Professors Marshall and Olkin. The topics reviewed include: bivariate geometric distribution, extreme value behavior, bivariate negative binomial distribution, bivariate exponential distribution, concomitants, reliability, distributions of sums and ratios, Ryu�s bivariate exponential distribution, bivariate Pareto distribution and generalized exponential and Weibull distributions. Some hitherto unknown results about these distributions are also mentioned.