Abstract

A new three-parameter distribution family with a flexible failure rate function arising by mixing the Weibull distribution and power-series distribution is introduced. This distribution family includes special cases of some well-used mixing distributions and generalizes the exponential power-series distribution. Various properties of the new distribution family are discussed. The maximum likelihood estimation and an EM algorithm are presented for finding the estimates of the distribution family parameters, and expressions for their asymptotic variance and covariance are derived. Intensive simulation studies are implemented and experimental results are illustrated with real data-sets.

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