%0 Journal Article %A Gómez Sánchez-Manzano, Eusebio %A Gómez Villegas, Miguel A. %A Marín Diazaraque, Juan Miguel %T A survey on continuous elliptical vector distributions %D 2003 %@ 1988-2807 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/56905 %X In this paper it is taken up a revision and characterization of the class of absolutely continuous elliptical distributions upon a parameterization based on the density function. Their properties (probabilistic characteristics, a±ne transformations, marginal and conditional distributions and regression) are shown in a practical and easy to interpret way. Two examples are fully undertaken: the multivariate double exponential dis-tribution and the multivariate uniform distribution. %~