| Author(s) | Distribution(s) |
| De Moivre (1738) | Normal distribution |
| Gauss (1809) | Normal applied in astronomy |
| Subbotin (1923) | EPD |
| Aitchison and Brown (1957) | LogNormal distribution |
| Azzalini (1986) | SEPD |
| Zolotarev V.M. (1986) | Stable distribution |
| Bolleslev (1987) | Student−t distribution |
| Fernandez et al.(1995) | Modified SEPD |
| Swamee P.K. (2002) | Near Lognormal distribution |
| Ayebo and Kozubowski (2004) | SEPD applied in finance |
| DiCiccio and Monti (2004) | Properties of MLE of the SEPD |
| Zhu and Zinde-Walsh (2009) | SSAEPD |