The Beta-Half-Cauchy Distribution

On the basis of the half-Cauchy distribution, we propose the called beta-half-Cauchy distribution for modeling lifetime data. Various explicit expressions for its moments, generating and quantile functions, mean deviations, and density function of the order statistics and their moments are provided....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gauss M. Cordeiro, Artur J. Lemonte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Journal of Probability and Statistics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/904705