  In this paper we have introduced a generalized version of alpha beta skew
normal distribution in the same line of Sharafi et al. (2017) and investigated
some of its basic properties. The extensions of the proposed distribution have
also been studied. The appropriateness of the proposed distribution has been
tested by comparing the values of Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and
Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) with the values of some other known
related distributions for better model selection. Likelihood ratio test has
been used for discriminating between nested models.
