A class of generalized bivariate Marshall–Olkin distributions, which includes as special cases the Marshall-Olkin bivariate exponential distribution and the Marshall-Olkin type distribution due to Muliere and Scarsini (1987), are examined in this paper. Stochastic comparison results are derived, and bivariate aging properties, together with properties related to evolution of dependence along ti...

A dual class of the multivariate distributions of Marshall-Olkin type is introduced, and their copulas are presented and utilized to derive explicit expressions of the distributional tail dependencies, which describe the amount of dependence in the upperorthant tail or lower-orthant tail of a multivariate distribution and can be used in the study of dependence among extreme values. A sufficient...

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William James’ Principles of Psychology, in which he made famous the ‘specious present’ doctrine of temporal experience, and Edmund Husserl’s Zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewusstseins, were giant strides in the philosophical investigation of the temporality of experience. However, an important set of precursors to these works has not been adequately investigated. In this article, we under...

of the true giants in the history of science. Marshall Nirenberg, the man who deciphered the genetic code, was taken from us by a rare neuroendocrine cancer. He was 82 years old. I was one of the many scientists who had the good fortune to be trained in Marshall's lab, to be exposed to his brilliance , to be instilled with his values, and to be inspired by his enthusiasm for the discovery of im...