A Compound Class of Geometric and Lifetimes Distributions
Journal Article
Alkarni, Said Hofan . 2013
نوع عمل المنشور:
بحث علمي
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المجلة \ الصحيفة:
The Open Statistics and Probability Journal
رقم الإصدار السنوي:
5
الصفحات:
01-05
مستخلص المنشور:
A new lifetime class with decreasing failure rateis introduced by compounding truncated Geometric distribution and any proper continuous lifetime distribution. The properties of the proposed class are discussed, including a formal proof of its probability density function, distribution function and explicit algebraic formulae for its reliability and failure rate functions. A simple EM-type algorithm for iteratively computing maximum likelihood estimates is presented. A formal equation for Fisher information matrix is derived in order to obtaining the asymptotic covariance matrix. This new class of distributions generalizes several distributions which have been introduced and studied in the literature.