| Authors | Distributions and their applications |
| De Moivre (1738) | Normal distribution |
| Gauss (1809) | Normal applied in astronomy |
| Subbotin (1923) | EPD |
| Aitchison J. and Brown J.A.C. (1957) | Lognormal distribution |
| Leone F.C., Nottinghan R.B., Nelson L.S. (1961) | Folded normal distribution |
| William H. Rogers and John Tukey (1972) | Slash distribution |
| Azzalini (1985, 1986) | Skew-normal distribution |
| Azzalini (1986) | SEPD |
| Zolotarev V.M. (1986) | Stable distribution |
| Fernandez et al. (1995)2 | Modified SEPD |
| Mudholkar and Hutson (2000) | Epsilon-skew-normal family (ESN) |
| Swamee P.K. (2002) | Near lognormal distribution |
| Ayebo and Kozubowski (2004) | SEPD in finance |
| DiCiccio and Monti (2004) | Properties of MLE of the SEPD |
| Zhu and Zinde-Walsh (2009) | AEPD |