A new Weibull-X family of distributions: properties, characterizations and applications

Abstract We propose a new family of univariate distributions generated from the Weibull random variable, called a new Weibull-X family of distributions. Two special sub-models of the proposed family are presented and the shapes of density and hazard functions are investigated. General expressions fo...

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Main Authors: Zubair Ahmad, M. Elgarhy, G. G. Hamedani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-11-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40488-018-0087-6