A bivariate Birnbaum-Saunders regression model

The main aim of this paper is to propose a bivariate Birnbaum-Saunders regression model and discuss some of its properties. Specifically, we have developed the moment estimation, the maximum likelihood estimation and the observed Fisher information matrix. Hypothesis testing is also performed by the use of the asymptotic normality of the maximum-likelihood estimators. Finally, the results of simulation studies as well as an application to a real data set are presented to illustrate the model and all the inferential methods developed here.