The 'School of Extremes' in Portugal is nowadays well recognized by the international
scientific community. This recognition is mainly due to the scientific work of Tiago de Oliveira …

Finite mixture models have recently been considered for analyzing positive support
economical data streams with non-normal features. In this paper, a new mixture model …

Abstract The Birnbaum–Saunders distribution is asymmetrical and has received
considerable attention due to its properties and its relationship with the normal distribution …

The Portuguese School of Extremes and Applications (PORTSEA) is nowadays well
recognized by the international scientific community, and in my opinion, the organization of a …

Abstract The Birnbaum–Saunders distribution has been widely used to model reliability and
fatigue data. In this paper, we propose a regression of generalized linear models type based …

A brief narrative curriculum vitae (CV) of the author, emphasizing the last five-years' period,
2019-2023, is first presented. Next, and based on the author's recent and not yet published …

In spite of widespread use as well as theoretical properties of the multivariate scale mixture
normal distributions, practical studies show a lack of stability and robustness against …

A 'Escola de Extremos' em Portugal é hoje em dia reconhecida pela comunidade científica
internacional. O seu desenvolvimento teve sem dúvida como grande responsável a obra …

In the field of extreme value theory (EVT), and more generally in almost all areas of
Statistics, the ordering of the available sample is of primordial importance. Such an …