Abstract
It is pointed out that the distribution introduced by Balankin and Susarrey [A.S. Balankin and O. Susarrey, Phil. Mag. Lett. 79 629 (1999).] (for modelling crack-length and crack-width data) is contained by at least two known families of distributions. Some elementary statistical properties of these families are discussed.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the editor (Professor Davis) and Professor Balankin for carefully reading the paper and for their comments which greatly improved the paper.