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The New Extended Flexible Weibull Distribution and Its Applications

Received: 7 June 2017     Accepted: 11 July 2017     Published: 26 September 2017
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Abstract

The present article considers a new function to propose a new lifetime distribution. The new distribution is introduced by mixing up a linear system of the two logarithms of cumulative hazard functions. The proposed model is called new extended flexible Weibull distribution and is able to model lifetime with bathtub shaped failure rates and offers greater flexibility. Therefore, it can be quite valuable to use an alternative model to other existing lifetime distributions, where, modeling of real data sets with bathtub shaped failure rates are of interest. A brief description of the statistical properties along with estimation of the parameters through maximum likelihood procedure are discussed. The potentiality of the proposed model is showed by discussing two real data sets. For these data sets, the proposed model outclasses the Flexible Weibull Extension, Inverse Flexible Weibull Extension and Modified Weibull distributions.

Published in International Journal of Data Science and Analysis (Volume 3, Issue 3)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijdsa.20170303.11
Page(s) 18-23
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Keywords

Bathtub Shaped Failure Rates, Order Statistics, Moment Generating Function, Maximum Likelihood Estimation

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  • Department of Statistics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

  • Department of Statistics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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