Publications

Awarded papers

• Leiva V, Barros M, Paula GA, Galea M (2007) Influence diagnostics in log Birnbaum-Saunders regression models with censored data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 51(12):5694-5707. Article awarded by Elsevier to the most cited paper during two consecutive periods: 2005-2010/2006-2011.
• Balakrishnan N, Leiva V, Sanhueza A, Cabrera E (2009) Mixture inverse Gaussian distribution and its transformations, moments and applications. Statistics 43:91-104. Article awarded by Taylor & Francis among the 25 most important papers of the history of "Statistics: A Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics" due to the international year of Statistics 2013.
• Paula GA, Leiva V, Barros M, Liu S (2012) Robust statistical modeling using the Birnbaum-Saunders-t distribution applied to insurance. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry 28:16-34. Article awarded by Wiley to the most cited paper during 2012-2013.
• Rojas F, Leiva V, Quijada J, Fuentes M (2013) Optimization of contribution margins for a food service by adapting inventory management models. Global Conference on Business & Finance Proceedings 8(2):479-487. Article awarded as the best paper (first place like outstanding research) in Session Award Winners, among 600 participants, by the Institute for Business and Finance Research.
• Leiva V, Santos-Neto M, Cysneiros FJA, Barros M (2014) Birnbaum-Saunders statistical modelling: a new approach. Statistical Modelling 14(1):21-48. Article awarded by Sage Publisher to the most read paper during February, 2014.
• Rojas F, Leiva V, Ferlice S (2015) Inventory management in food companies with demand statistically dependent. CLADEA 2015. Article awarded as the best paper of the track "Management of Operations and Value Chain", during the 50th Annual Meeting of the Latin American Council of Management Schools (CLADEA) 2015.
• Leiva V, Rojas E, Galea M, Sanhueza A (2015) Diagnostics in Birnbaum-Saunders accelerated life models with an application to fatigue data. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry 28:16-34. Article awarded by Wiley to the most cited paper during 2014-2015.
• Caro-Lopera FJ, Leiva V, Balakrishnan N (2012) Connection between the Hadamard and matrix products with an application to a matrix-variate Birnbaum-Saunders distribution. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 104(1):126-139. Article awarded by Elsevier to the most downloaded paper in 2017.

To appear

• Leiva V, Aykroyd RG, Marchant C Discussion of "Birnbaum-Saunders distribution: A review of models, analysis, and applications" and a novel multivariate data analytics for an economics example in the textile industry. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (in press).
• Athayde E, Azevedo A, Barros M, Leiva V Failure rate of Birnbaum-Saunders distributions: shape, change-point, estimation and robustness. Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics (in press)
• Avila JL, Leiva V, et al The Fay-Herriot model in small area estimation: EM algorithm and application to official data. REVSTAT - Statistical Journal (in press).
• Leao J, Leiva V, Saulo H, Tomazella V Incorporation of frailties into a cure rate regression model and its diagnostics and application to melanoma data Statistics in Medicine (in press)
• Leiva V, Lillo C, Gomes MI, Ferreira M Discussion of "Birnbaum-Saunders distribution: A review of models, analysis, and applications" and a novel financial extreme value data analytics from natural disasters. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (in press).
• Martinez JL, Leiva V, Ruggeri F, Saulo H, Arteaga G A new estimator for the covariance of the PLS coefficients estimator with applications to chemical data. Journal of Chemometrics (in press)
• Ponce J, Latin C, Leiva V, Cortes G, Rodriguez F, Jimenez, CE Non-pharmacological motor-cognitive treatment to improve the mental health of elderly adults Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (in press)
• Saulo H, Leao J, Leiva V, Aykroyd RG Birnbaum-Saunders autoregressive conditional duration models applied to high-frequency financial data. Statistical Papers (in press).
• Tapia H, Giampaoli V, Diaz MP, Leiva V Sensitivity analysis of longitudinal count responses: A local influence approach and application to medical data. Journal of Applied Statistics (in press).
• Tapia H, Leiva V, Diaz MP, Giampaoli V Influence diagnostics in mixed effects logistic regression models. TEST (in press).

2018

• Leiva V, Marchant, C (2018) Multivariate generalized Birnbaum-Saunders models applied to case studies in bio-engineering and industry. In Oliveira T, Kitsos C, Oliveira A, Grilo LM (eds.) Recent Studies on Risk Analysis and Statistical Modeling. Springer, Switzerland, pp. 283-302.
• Aykroyd RG, Leiva V, Marchant C (2018) Multivariate Birnbaum-Saunders distributions: Modelling and applications. Risks 6(1), article 21 pages:1-25.
• Barros M, Galea M, Leiva V, Santos-Neto M (2018) Generalized tobit models: Diagnostics and application in econometrics. Journal of Applied Statistics 45:145-167.
• Desousa M, Saulo H, Leiva V, Scalco P (2018) On a tobit-Birnbaum-Saunders model with an application to medical data. Journal of Applied Statistics 45(5):932-955.
• Fierro R, Leiva V, Maidana JP (2018) Cumulative damage and times of occurrence for a multicomponent system: A discrete time approach. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 168:323-333.
• Garcia-Papani F, Leiva V, Uribe-Opazo MA, Aykroyd RG (2018) Birnbaum-Saunders spatial regression models: Diagnostics and application to chemical data Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 177(15):114-128.
• Garcia-Papani F, Leiva V, Ruggeri F, Uribe-Opazo MA (2018) Kriging with external drift in a Birnbaum-Saunders geostatistical model. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 32(6):1517-1530.
• Huerta M, Leiva V, Lillo C, Rodriguez M (2018) A beta partial least squares regression model: Diagnostics and application to mining industry data. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry 34(3):305-321.
• Leao J, Leiva V, Saulo H, Tomazella V (2018) A survival model with Birnbaum-Saunders frailty for uncensored and censored cancer data. Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics 32(4):707-729.
• Lillo C, Leiva V, Nicolis O, Aykroyd RG (2018) L-moments of the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution and its extreme value version: Estimation, goodness of fit and application to earthquake data. Journal of Applied Statistics 45(2):187-209.
• Marchant C, Leiva V, Cysneiros FJA, Liu S (2018) Robust multivariate control charts based on Birnbaum-Saunders distributions. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 88(1):182-202.

2017

• Leiva V, Ruggeri F, Saulo H, Vivanco, JF (2017) A methodology based on the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution for reliability analysis applied to nano-materials. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 157:192-201.
• Leiva V, Saulo, H (2017) Environmental applications based on Birnbaum-Saunders models. In Adhikari, A, Adhikari MR, Chaubey YP (eds.) Mathematical and Statistical Applications in Life Sciences and Engineering. Springer, Singapore, pp 283-304.
• Leiva V, Lillo C, Morras, R On a business confidence index and its analytics: A Chilean case. In Oliveira T, Kitsos C, Oliveira A, Grilo LM (eds.) Recent Studies on Risk Analysis and Statistical Modeling. Springer, Switzerland, pp. 61-78.
• Leiva V The Birnbaum-Saunders Distribution. Academic Press, New York.
• Leiva V Business intelligence and its connection with the area of services. Center of Experiences and Services: Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, April, 2016, 1-9.
• Leiva V, Vivanco JF Fatigue models. Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online 1-10.
• Bourguignon M, Leao J, Leiva V, Santos-Neto M (2017) The transmuted Birnbaum-Saunders distribution. REVSTAT - Statistical Journal 15(4):601-628.
• Fierro R, Leiva V (2017) A stochastic methodology for risk assessment of a large earthquake when a long time has elapsed. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 31(9):2327-2336.
• Garcia-Papani F, Uribe-Opazo MA, Leiva V, Aykroyd RG (2017) Birnbaum-Saunders spatial modelling and diagnostics applied to agricultural engineering data. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 31(1):105-124.
• Leao J, Leiva V, Saulo H, Tomazella V (2017) Birnbaum-Saunders frailty regression models: Diagnostics and application to medical data. Biometrical Journal 59(2):291-314.

2016

• Leiva V, Ferreira M, Gomes MI, Lillo C (2016) Extreme value Birnbaum-Saunders regression models applied to environmental data. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 30(3):1045-1058.
• Leiva V, Liu S, Shi L, Cysneiros FJA (2016) Diagnostics in elliptical regression models with stochastic restrictions applied to econometrics. Journal of Applied Statistics 43(4):627-642.
• Leiva V, Santos-Neto M, Cysneiros FJA, Barros M (2016) A methodology for stochastic inventory models based on a zero-adjusted Birnbaum-Saunders distribution. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry 32(1):74-89.
• Khosravi M, Leiva V, Jamalizadeh A, Porcu E (2016) A nonlinear Birnbaum-Saunders model based on a bivariate construction and its characteristics. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods 45(3):772-793.
• Liu S, Leiva V, Ma T, Welsh A (2016) Influence diagnostic analysis in the possibly heteroskedastic linear model with exact restrictions. Statistical Methods and Applications 25(2):227-249.
• Marchant C, Leiva V, Cysneiros, FJA (2016) A multivariate log-linear model for Birnbaum-Saunders distributions. IEEE Transactions on Reliability 65(2):816-827.
• Marchant C, Leiva V, Cysneiros, FJA, Vivanco JF (2016) Diagnostics in multivariate Birnbaum-Saunders regression models. Journal of Applied Statistics 43(15):2829-2849.
• Rojas F, Leiva V (2016) Inventory management in food companies with statistically dependent demand. Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administracion 29(4):1-36.
• Santos-Neto M, Cysneiros FJA, Leiva V, Barros M (2016) Reparameterized Birnbaum-Saunders regression models with varying precision. Electronic Journal of Statistics 10:2825-2855.
• Wanke P, Ewbank H, Leiva V, Rojas F (2016) Inventory management for new products with triangularly distributed demand and lead-time. Computers & Operations Research 69:97-108.

2015

• Leiva V, Saunders SC (2015) Cumulative damage models. Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online 1-10.
• Leiva V, Marchant C, Ruggeri F, Saulo H (2015) A criterion for environmental assessment using Birnbaum-Saunders attribute control charts. Environmetrics 26(7):463-476.
• Leiva V, Oliveira A (2015) np-charts for attribute control. Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online 1-8.
• Leiva V, Oliveira T (2015) p-charts for attribute control. Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online 1-6.
• Leiva V, Tejo M, Guiraud P, Schmachtenberg O, Orio P, Marmolejo F (2015) Modeling neural activity with cumulative damage distributions. Biological Cybernetics 109(4):421-433.
• Fierro R, Leiva V, Balakrishnan N (2015) Statistical inference on a stochastic epidemic model. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation 44(9):2297-2314.
• Fierro R, Leiva V, Moeller J (2015) The Hawkes process with different exciting functions and its asymptotic behavior. Journal of Applied Probability 52(1):37-54.
• Rojas F, Leiva V, Wanke P, Marchant C (2015) Optimization of contribution margins in food services by modeling independent component demand. Colombian Journal of Statistics 38(1):1-30.
• Sanchez L, Leiva V, Caro-Lopera FJ, Cysneiros FJA (2015) On matrix-variate Birnbaum-Saunders distributions and their estimation and application. Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics 29(4):790-812.
• Saulo H, Leiva V, Ruggeri F (2015) Monitoring environmental risk by a methodology based on control charts. In Kitsos C, Oliveira TA, Rigas A, Gulati S (eds.) Theory and Practice of Risk Assessment. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics 136. Springer, Switzerland, pp 177-197.
• Wanke P, Leiva V (2015) Exploring the potential use of the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution in inventory management. Mathematical Problems in Engineering Article ID 827246.

2014

• Leiva V, Marchant C, Saulo H, Aslam M, Rojas F (2014) Capability indices for Birnbaum-Saunders processes applied to electronic and food industries. Journal of Applied Statistics 41(9):1881-1902.
• Leiva V, Rojas E, Galea M, Sanhueza A (2014) Diagnostics in Birnbaum-Saunders accelerated life models with an application to fatigue data. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry 30(2):115-131.
• Leiva V, Santos-Neto M, Cysneiros FJA, Barros M (2014) Birnbaum-Saunders statistical modelling: a new approach. Statistical Modelling 14(1):21-48.
• Leiva V, Saulo H, Leao J, Marchant C (2014) A family of autoregressive conditional duration models applied to financial data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 79:175-191.
• Barros M, Leiva V, Ospina R, Tsuyuguchi A (2014) Goodness-of-fit tests for the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution with censored reliability data. IEEE Transactions on Reliability 63(2):543-554.
• Castro-Kuriss C, Leiva V, Athayde E (2014) Graphical tools to assess goodness-of-fit in non-location-scale distributions. Colombian Journal of Statistics (special issue on "Current Topics in Statistical Graphics") 37(2):341-365.
• Coelho J, Branco F, Oliveira TA, Leiva V (2014) A computational tool useful for simulating data from non-standard distributions. Biometrie und Medizinische Informatik 23:75-97.
• Frutos E, Galindo MP, Leiva V (2014) An interactive biplot implementation in R for modeling genotype-by-environment interaction. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 28(7): 1629-1641.
• Nieto AB, Galindo MP, Leiva V, Vicente-Galindo P (2014) A methodology for biplots based on bootstrapping with R. Colombian Journal of Statistics (special issue on "Current Topics in Statistical Graphics") 37(2):367-397.
• Santos-Neto M, Cysneiros FJA, Leiva V, Barros M (2014) On a reparameterized Birnbaum-Saunders distribution and its moments, estimation and applications. REVSTAT - Statistical Journal 12(3):247-272.

2013

• Leiva V, Porcu E (2013) Discussion on experimental designs for identifying causal mechanisms: Part I. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 176:5-51.
• Fierro R, Leiva V, Ruggeri F, Sanhueza A (2013) On a Birnbaum-Saunders distribution arising from a non-homogeneous Poisson process. Statistics and Probability Letters 83:1233-1239.
• Gomes MI, Ferreira M, Leiva V (2013) The extreme value Birnbaum-Saunders model in athletics. Proceedings in 59th ISI World Statistics Congress STS084:2867-2872.
• Kelmansky D, Martinez E, Leiva V (2013) A new variance stabilizing transformation for gene expression data analysis. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 12(6):653-666.
• Marchant C, Bertin K, Leiva V Saulo H (2013) Generalized Birnbaum-Saunders kernel density estimators and an analysis of financial data Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 63:1-15.
• Marchant C, Leiva V, Cavieres MF, Sanhueza A (2013) Air contaminant statistical distributions with application to PM10 in Santiago, Chile. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 223:1-31.
• Porcu E, Leiva V, (2013) Discussion on experimental designs for identifying causal mechanisms: Part II. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 176:5-51.
• Rojas F, Leiva V Quijada J, Fuentes M (2013) Optimization contribution margins of food service by adapting inventory management models. Global Conference on Business & Finance Proceedings 8(2):479-487.
• Saulo H, Leiva V, Ziegelmann FA, Marchant C (2013) A nonparametric method for estimating asymmetric densities based on skewed Birnbaum-Saunders distributions applied to environmental data. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 27:1479-1491.
• Vilca F, Rodrigues-Motta M, Leiva V (2013) On a variance stabilizing model and its application to genomic data. Journal of Applied Statistics 40(11):2354-2371.

2012

• Athayde E, Azevedo C, Leiva V, Sanhueza A (2012) About Birnbaum-Saunders distributions based on the Johnson system. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods 41:2061-2079.
• Azevedo, C., Leiva, V., Athayde, E., Balakrishnan, N. (2012) Shape and change point analyses of the Birnbaum-Saunders-t hazard rate and associated estimation. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 56:3887-3897.
• Caro-Lopera FJ, Leiva V, Balakrishnan N (2012) Connection between the Hadamard and matrix products with an application to a matrix-variate Birnbaum-Saunders distribution. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 104(1):126-139.
• Catalan, M., Galindo, M.P., Martin, J. Leiva, V. (2012) Integration methods of odds ratio based on meta-analysis using fixed and random effect models useful in public health. Colombian Journal of Statistics (special issue on biostatistics) 35(2):205-222.
• Ferreira, M., Gomes, M.I., Leiva, V. (2012) On an extreme value version of the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution. REVSTAT - Statistical Journal 10(2):181-210.
• Gomes, M.I., Ferreira, M., Leiva, V. (2012) The extreme value Birnbaum-Saunders model and its moments and application in biometry. Biometrical Letters 49(2): 81-94.
• Leiva, V., Ponce, M.G., Marchant, C., Bustos, O. (2012) Fatigue statistical distributions useful for modeling diameter and mortality of trees. Colombian Journal of Statistics 35(3):349-367.
• Paula, G.A., Leiva, V., Barros, M., Liu, S. (2012) Robust statistical modeling using the Birnbaum-Saunders-t distribution applied to insurance. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry 28:16-34.
• Santos-Neto, M., Cysneiros, F.J.A. Leiva, V., Ahmed, S.E. (2012) On new parameterizations of the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution. Pakistan Journal of Statistics 28(1):1-26.

2011

• Leiva, V., Athayde, E., Azevedo, C., Marchant, C. (2011) Modeling wind energy flux by a Birnbaum-Saunders distribution with unknown shift parameter. Journal of Applied Statistics 38(12): 2819-2838.
• Leiva, V., Soto, G., Cabrera, E., Cabrera, G. (2011) New control charts based on the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution and their implementation. Colombian Journal of Statistics 34(1):147-176.
• Balakrishnan, N., Gupta, R. Kundu, D., Leiva, V., Sanhueza, A. (2011) On some mixture models based on the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution and associated inference. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 141(7):2175-2190.
• Castillo, N.O., Gomez, H.W., Leiva, V., Sanhueza, A. (2011) On the Fernandez-Steel distribution: Inference and application. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 55(11):2951-2961 .
• Riquelme, M., Leiva, V., Galea, M., Sanhueza, A. (2011) Influence diagnostics on the coefficient of variation of elliptically contoured distributions. Journal of Applied Statistics 38(3):513-532.
• Sanhueza, A., Leiva, V., López-Kleine, L. (2011) On the Student-t mixture inverse Gaussian model with an application to protein production. Colombian Journal of Statistics 34(1):177-195.
• Santana, L., Vilca, F., Leiva, V. (2011) Influence analysis in skew-Birnbaum-Saunders regression models and applications. Journal of Applied Statistics 38(8):1633-1649.
• Vilca, F., Santana, L., Leiva, V., Balakrishnan, N. (2011) Estimation of extreme percentiles in Birnbaum-Saunders distributions. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 55(4):1665-1678.
• Villegas, C., Paula, G.A., Leiva, V. (2011) Birnbaum-Saunders mixed models for censored reliability data analysis. IEEE Transactions on Reliability 60(4):748-758.

2010

• Leiva, V., Sanhueza, A. Kotz, S., Araneda, N. (2010) A unified mixture model based on the inverse gaussian distribution. Pakistan Journal of Statistics 26(3):445-460.
• Leiva, V., Vilca, F., Balakrishnan, N., Sanhueza, A. (2010) A skewed sinh-normal distribution and its properties and application to air pollution. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 39(3):426-443.
• Leiva, V., Sanhueza, A., Sen, P.K., Araneda, N. (2010) M-procedures in the general multivariate nonlinear regression model. Pakistan Journal of Statistics 26(1):1-13.
• Ahmed, S.E., Castro-Kuriss, C., Flores, E., Leiva, V., Sanhueza, A. (2010) A truncated version of the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution with an application in financial risk. Pakistan Journal of Statistics 26(1):293-311.
• Barros, M., Galea, M., Gonzalez, M., Leiva, V. (2010) Influence diagnostics in the tobit censored response model. Statistical Methods and Applications 19(3): 379-397.
• Castro-Kuriss, C., Kelmansky, D., Leiva, V., Martinez, E. (2010) On a goodness-of-fit test for normality with unknown parameters and type-II censored data. Journal of Applied Statistics 37(7):1193-1211.
• Kotz, S., Leiva, V., Sanhueza, A. (2010) Two new mixture models related to the inverse Gaussian distribution. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 12:199-212.
• Vilca, F., Sanhueza, A., Leiva, V., Christakos, G. (2010) An extended Birnbaum-Saunders model and its application in the study of environmental quality in Santiago, Chile. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 24(5):771-782.

2009

• Leiva, V., Sanhueza, A. Kelmansky, S., Martinez, E. (2009) On the glog-normal distribution and its association with the gene expression problem. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 53(5):1613-1621.
• Leiva, V., Sanhueza, A., Angulo, J.M. (2009) A length-biased version of the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution with application in water quality. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 23:299-307.
• Balakrishnan, N., Leiva, V., Sanhueza, A., Cabrera, E. (2009) Mixture inverse Gaussian distribution and its transformations, moments and applications. Statistics 43:91-104.
• Balakrishnan, N., Leiva, V., Sanhueza, A., Vilca, F. (2009) Estimation in the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution based on scale-mixture of normals and the EM-algorithm. Statistics and Operations Research Transactions 33 (2):171-192.
• Barros, M., Paula, G.A., Leiva, V. (2009) An R implementation for generalized Birnbaum-Saunders distributions. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 53(5):1511-1528.
• Castro-Kuriss, C., Kelmansky, D., Leiva, V., Martinez, E. (2009) A new goodness-of-fit test for censored data with an application in monitoring processes. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation 38(6):1161-1177.
• Guiraud, P., Leiva, V., Fierro, R. (2009) A non-central version of the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution for reliability analysis. IEEE Transactions on Reliability 58(1):152-160.
• Sanhueza, A., Leiva, V., Flores, E. (2009) On a length-biased life distribution based on the sinh-normal model. Journal of the Korean Statistical Society 38:323-330.
• Sanhueza, A., Sen, P.K., Leiva, V. (2009) A robust procedure in nonlinear models for repeated measurements. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 38:138-155.

2008

• Leiva, V., Barros, M., Paula, G.A., Sanhueza, A. (2008) Generalized Birnbaum-Saunders distributions applied to air pollutant concentration. Environmetrics 19:235-249.
• Leiva, V., Hernandez, H, Sanhueza, A. (2008) An R package for a general class of inverse Gaussian distributions. Journal of Statistical Software 26(4):1-21.
• Leiva, V., Riquelme, M., Balakrishnan, N., Sanhueza, A. (2008) Lifetime analysis based on the generalized Birnbaum-Saunders distribution. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 52(4):2079-2097.
• Leiva, V., Sanhueza, A., Sen, P.K., Paula, G.A. (2008) Random number generators for the generalized Birnbaum-Saunders distribution. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 78:1105-1118.
• Leiva, V., Sanhueza, A., Silva, A., Galea, M. (2008) A new three-parameter extension of the inverse Gaussian distribution. Statistics and Probability Letters 78(11):1266-1273.
• Barros, M., Paula, G.A., Leiva, V. (2008) A new class of survival regression models with heavy-tailed errors: robustness and diagnostics. Lifetime Data Analysis 14(3): 316-332.
• Sanhueza, A., Leiva, V., Balakrishnan, N. (2008) A new class of inverse Gaussian type distributions. Metrika 68:31-49.
• Sanhueza, A., Leiva, V., Balakrishnan, N. (2008) The generalized Birnbaum-Saunders distribution and its theory, methodology, and application. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 37:645-670.

2007-2001

• Leiva, V., Barros, M., Paula, G.A., Galea, M. (2007) Influence diagnostics in log Birnbaum-Saunders regression models with censored data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 51(12):5694-5707.
• Leiva, V., Hernández, H., Riquelme, M. (2006) A new package for the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution. R Journal 6:35-40.
• Balakrishnan, N., Leiva, V., López, J. (2007) Acceptance sampling plans from truncated life tests based on the generalized Birnbaum-Saunders distribution. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation 36:643-656.
• Díaz-García, J.A., Leiva, V. (2007) Erratum to "A new family of life distributions based on elliptically contoured distributions". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 137:1512-1513.
• Díaz-García, J.A., Leiva, V. (2005) A new family of life distributions based on elliptically contoured distributions. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 128(2):445-457.
• Díaz-García, J.A., Leiva, V. (2003) Doubly non-central t and F distribution obtained under singular and non-singular elliptic distributions. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 32(1):11-32.
• Díaz-García, J.A., Galea, M., Leiva, V. (2003) Influence diagnostics for multivariate elliptic regression linear models. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 32(3):625-641.
• Díaz-García, J.A., Leiva, V., Galea, M. (2002) Singular elliptic distribution: density and applications. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 31(5):665-681.
• Espinosa, E., Cantu, M., Leiva, V. (2001) Characterization and application of the Birnbaum- Saunders model as a life distribution. Agraria 1:19-27.
• Galea, M., Leiva, V., Paula, G. (2004) Influence diagnostics in log-Birnbaum-Saunders regression models. Journal of Applied Statistics 31:1049-1064.
• Vilca, F., Leiva, V. (2006) A new fatigue life model based on the family of skew-elliptic distributions. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 35(2):229-244.