chapter 1 The Skew-Normal Distribution / chapter 2 The Closed Skew-Normal Distribution / chapter 3 Skew-Elliptical Distributions -- chapter 4 Generalized Skew-Normal Distributions -- chapter 5 Skew-Symmetric and Generalized Skew-Elliptical Distributions / chapter 6 Elliptical Models Subject to Hidden Truncation or Selective Sampling / chapter 7 From Symmetric to Asymmetric Distributions: A Uni?ed Approach / chapter 8 Skewed Link Models for Categorical Response Data / chapter 9 Skew-Elliptical Distributions in Bayesian Inference / chapter 10 Bayesian Multivariate Skewed Regression Modeling with an Application to Firm Size / chapter 11 Capital Asset Pricing for UK Stocks under the Multivariate Skew-Normal Distribution / chapter 12 A Skew-in-Mean GARCH Model / chapter 13 Skew-Normality in Stochastic Frontier Analysis / chapter 14 Coastal Flooding and the Multivariate Skew-t Distribution / chapter 15 Time Series Analysis with a Skewed Kalman Filter / chapter 16 Spatial Prediction of Rainfall Using Skew-Normal Processes / chapter 17 Shape Representation with Flexible Skew-Symmetric Distributions / chapter 18 An Astronomical Distance Determination Method Using Regression with Skew-Normal Errors / chapter 19 On a Bayesian Multivariate Survival Model with a Skewed Frailty / chapter 20 Linear Mixed E?ects Models with Flexible Generalized Skew-Elliptical Random E?ects