My musings on a pioneering work of Erich Lehmann and its rediscoveries on some families of distributions

The paper of Erich Lehmann (Lehmann 1953) is renowned for its ground-breaking contribution to rank tests within the area of nonparametric statistics. This work, in all likelihood, is known to every statistician. But, what is likely not known to many are some of the novel concepts and models that this paper succinctly introduced to the area of distribution theory. This, unfortunately, has led to some of these being rediscovered in the literature …