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

The article discusses several aspects of the Birnbaum-Saunders (BS) distribution that was reviewed by N. Balakrishnan and Debasis Kundu within the issue and the extreme value (EV) BS distribution. Topics include the reasons for using BS distribution in modeling data with heavy tails, the EVBS distribution developed by Ferreira and colleagues, and EVBS regression models.