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Exponentiated Weibull distribution
About: Exponentiated Weibull distribution is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1528 publications have been published within this topic receiving 47030 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the applicability of statistics to a wide field of problems is discussed, and examples of simple and complex distributions are given, as well as a discussion of the application of statistics in a wide range of problems.
Abstract: This paper discusses the applicability of statistics to a wide field of problems. Examples of simple and complex distributions are given.
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TL;DR: In this article, a three-parameter generalized exponential distribution (GED) was used for analysis of lifetime data, which is a particular case of the exponentiated Weibull distribution originally proposed by Mudholkar et al.
Abstract: Summary The three-parameter gamma and three-parameter Weibull distributions are commonly used for analysing any lifetime data or skewed data. Both distributions have several desirable properties, and nice physical interpretations. Because of the scale and shape parameters, both have quite a bit of flexibility for analysing different types of lifetime data. They have increasing as well as decreasing hazard rate depending on the shape parameter. Unfortunately both distributions also have certain drawbacks. This paper considers a three-parameter distribution which is a particular case of the exponentiated Weibull distribution originally proposed by Mudholkar, Srivastava & Freimer (1995) when the location parameter is not present. The study examines different properties of this model and observes that this family has some interesting features which are quite similar to those of the gamma family and the Weibull family, and certain distinct properties also. It appears this model can be used as an alternative to the gamma model or the Weibull model in many situations. One dataset is provided where the three-parameter generalized exponential distribution fits better than the three-parameter Weibull distribution or the three-parameter gamma distribution.
1,084 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a simple generalization of the Weibull distribution is presented, which is well suited for modeling bathtub failure rate lifetime data and for testing goodness-of-fit of the weibull and negative exponential models as subhypotheses.
Abstract: A simple generalization of the Weibull distribution is presented. The distribution is well suited for modeling bathtub failure rate lifetime data and for testing goodness-of-fit of the Weibull and negative exponential models as subhypotheses. >
1,028 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a new way of introducing a parameter to expand a family of distributions is introduced and applied to yield a new two-parameter extension of the exponential distribution which may serve as a competitor to such commonly-used twoparameter families of life distributions as the Weibull, gamma and lognormal distributions.
Abstract: SUMMARY A new way of introducing a parameter to expand a family of distributions is introduced and applied to yield a new two-parameter extension of the exponential distribution which may serve as a competitor to such commonly-used two-parameter families of life distributions as the Weibull, gamma and lognormal distributions. In addition, the general method is applied to yield a new three-parameter Weibull distribution. Families expanded using the method introduced here have the property that the minimum of a geometric number of independent random variables with common distribution in the family has a distribution again in the family. Bivariate versions are also considered.
1,016 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the properties of a new family of distributions known as the Exponentiated Exponential (exponential) distribution, discussed in Gupta, Gupta, and Gupta (1998).
Abstract: Summary In this article we study some properties of a new family of distributions, namely Exponentiated Exponentialdistribution, discussed in Gupta, Gupta, and Gupta (1998). The Exponentiated Exponential family has two parameters (scale and shape) similar to a Weibull or a gamma family. It is observed that many properties of this new family are quite similar to those of a Weibull or a gamma family, therefore this distribution can be used as a possible alternative to a Weibull or a gamma distribution. We present two reall ife data sets, where it is observed that in one data set exponentiated exponential distribution has a better fit compared to Weibull or gamma distribution and in the other data set Weibull has a better fit than exponentiated exponential or gamma distribution. Some numerical experiments are performed to see how the maximum likelihood estimators and their asymptotic results work for finite sample sizes.
684 citations