Modifications of the Weibull distribution: A review

SJ Almalki, S Nadarajah - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2014 - Elsevier
It is well known that the Weibull distribution is the most popular and the most widely used
distribution in reliability and in analysis of lifetime data. Unfortunately, its hazard function …

Methods for generating families of univariate continuous distributions in the recent decades

C Lee, F Famoye, AY Alzaatreh - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
There has been a renewed interest in develo** more flexible statistical distributions in
recent decades. A major milestone in the methods for generating statistical distributions is …

A new method for generating families of continuous distributions

A Alzaatreh, C Lee, F Famoye - Metron, 2013 - Springer
In this paper, a new method is proposed for generating families of continuous distributions. A
random variable X,“the transformer”, is used to transform another random variable T,“the …

Topp–Leone Family of Distributions: Some Properties and Application

A Al-Shomrani, O Arif, A Shawky, S Hanif… - Pakistan Journal of …, 2016 - pjsor.com
In this paper we have proposed a new family of distributions; the Topp–Leone family of
distributions. We have given general expression for density and distribution function of the …

A new modified Weibull distribution

SJ Almalki, J Yuan - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2013 - Elsevier
We introduce a new lifetime distribution by considering a serial system with one component
following a Weibull distribution and another following a modified Weibull distribution. We …

[PDF][PDF] Exponentiated TX family of distributions with some applications

A Alzaghal, F Famoye, C Lee - International Journal of Statistics and …, 2013 - academia.edu
In this paper, a new family of distributions called exponentiated TX distribution is defined.
Some of its properties and special cases are discussed. A member of the family, namely, the …

Survival analysis of cancer patients using a new extended Weibull distribution

HS Klakattawi - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
One of the most important applications of statistical analysis is in health research and
applications. Cancer studies are mostly required special statistical considerations in order to …

Beta-Weibull distribution: some properties and applications to censored data

C Lee, F Famoye, O Olumolade - Journal of modern …, 2007 - digitalcommons.wayne.edu
Some properties of a four-parameter beta-Weibull distribution are discussed. The beta-
Weibull distribution is shown to have bathtub, unimodal, increasing, and decreasing hazard …

The beta-Pareto distribution

A Akinsete, F Famoye, C Lee - Statistics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, a four-parameter beta-Pareto distribution is defined and studied. Various
properties of the distribution are discussed. The distribution is found to be unimodal and has …

The transmuted Topp-Leone G family of distributions: theory, characterizations and applications

HM Yousof, M Alizadeh, SMA Jahanshahi… - Journal of Data …, 2017 - airitilibrary.com
In this paper, we introduce a new family of continuous distributions called the transmuted
Topp-Leone G family which extends the transmuted class pioneered by Shaw and Buckley …