Compounded inverse Weibull distributions: Properties, inference and applications
- 28 February 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
- Vol. 48 (7), 2012-2033
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2018.1429623
Abstract
In this paper two probability distributions are analyzed which are formed by compounding inverse Weibull with zero-truncated Poisson and geometric distributions. The distributions can be used to model lifetime of series system where the lifetimes follow inverse Weibull distribution and the subgroup size being random follows either geometric or zero-truncated Poisson distribution. Some of the important statistical and reliability properties of each of the distributions are derived. The distributions are found to exhibit both monotone and non-monotone failure rates. The parameters of the distributions are estimated using the expectation-maximization algorithm and the method of minimum distance estimation. The potentials of the distributions are explored through three real life data sets and are compared with similar compounded distributions, viz. Weibull-geometric, Weibull-Poisson, exponential-geometric and exponential-Poisson distributions.Keywords
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