On scale-mixture Birnbaum–Saunders distributions

Abstract We present for the first time a justification on the basis of central limit theorems for the family of life distributions generated from scale-mixture of normals. This family was proposed by Balakrishnan et al. (2009) and can be used to accommodate unexpected observations for the usual Birnbaum–Saunders distribution generated from the normal one. The class of scale-mixture of normals includes normal, slash, Student- t , logistic, double-exponential, exponential power and many other distributions. We present a model for the crack extensions where the limiting distribution of total crack extensions is in the class of scale-mixture of normals.

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