A stationary sequence of random variables with Birnbaum-Saunders marginal distribution is constructed using a Gaussian autoregressive moving average sequence. The parameters of the model are then estimated by the maximum likelihood method, and the resulting estimators are shown to be consistent and asymptotically normal. A simulation study is carried out to assess the performance of the estimators. The proposed model is finally used to analyze 2 real data sets. KEYWORDS autoregressive moving average models, Birnbaum-Saunders distribution, consistent and asymptotically normal, maximum likelihood estimators, non-Gaussian time series 562