  In this study by considering Balakrishnan mechanism a new form of alpha skew
distribution is proposed and properties are investigated. The suitability of
the proposed distribution has tested at the end with appropriate data fitting
experiment and then comparing the values of Akaike Information Criterion (AIC),
and Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) with the values of some other related
distributions. Likelihood ratio test is carried out for nested models, that is,
for Laplace and the proposed distributions.
  Keywords: Skew Distribution, Alpha-Skew Distribution, Bimodal Distribution,
Alpha-Skew-Normal Distribution, Alpha-Skew-Laplace Distribution,
Balakrishnan-Alpha-Skew-Normal Distribution
