Discussion of “Birnbaum‐Saunders distribution: A review of models, analysis, and applications” and a novel financial extreme value data analytics from natural disasters

This work was partially supported by the Chilean government under the projectgrant FONDECYT 1160868 and by Portuguese funds through FCT, Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, withinthe Projects UID/MAT/00013/2013 (CMAT/Universidade do Minho) and UID/MAT/00006/2013 (CEA/UL) and by theresearch center CEMAT (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa) through the Project UID/Multi/04621/2013