Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications

Volume 14, Issue 3, September 2015, Pages 265 - 280

A Lifetime Distribution Based on a Transformation of a Two-Sided Power Variate

Authors
Mustafa C. Korkmaz, Ali I. Genç
Corresponding Author
Ali I. Genç
Received 28 February 2014, Accepted 5 May 2015, Available Online 1 September 2015.
DOI
10.2991/jsta.2015.14.3.4How to use a DOI?
Keywords
generalized Weibull distribution; maximum likelihood estimation; mixture distribution; reliability; two-sided power distribution
Abstract

We introduce a new generalization of Weibull distribution by making use of a transformation of the standard two- sided power distributed random variable. Weibull and the exponentiated Weibull distributions are submodels of this new distribution.We show that this newly defined distribution is in fact a mixture of the truncated forms of Weibull and the exponentiated Weibull distributions. The new distribution has two shape parameters that make it more flexible for modeling data than Weibull and exponentiated Weibull distributions. We study its properties, consider the maximum likelihood estimation procedure and apply it on some real data sets from reliability.

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Journal
Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications
Volume-Issue
14 - 3
Pages
265 - 280
Publication Date
2015/09/01
ISSN (Online)
2214-1766
ISSN (Print)
1538-7887
DOI
10.2991/jsta.2015.14.3.4How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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