This volume, which is completely dedicated to continuous bivariate dist-
butions, describes in detail their forms, properties, dependence
structures, computation, and applications. It is a comprehensive and
thorough revision ofanearliereditionof"ContinuousBivariateDistributions,
Emphasizing- plications" by T.P. Hutchinson and C.D. Lai, published in
1990 by Rumsby Scienti?c Publishing, Adelaide, Australia. It has been
nearly two decades since the publication of that book, and much has
changed in this area of research during this period. Generali- tions
have been considered for many known standard bivariate distributions.
Skewed versions of di?erent bivariate distributions have been proposed
and appliedtomodeldatawithskewnessdepartures.Byspecifyingthetwocon-
tional distributions, rather than the simple speci?cation of one
marginal and one conditional distribution, several general families of
conditionally spe- ?ed bivariate distributions have been derived and
studied at great length. Finally, bivariate distributions generated by a
variety of copulas and their ?exibility (in terms of accommodating
association/correlation) and str- tural properties have received
considerable attention. All these developments
andadvancesnecessitatedthepresentvolumeandhavethusresultedinas-
stantially di?erent version than the last edition, both in terms of
coverage and topics of discussion.
