Generalized Lindley Distribution

Authors

  • Hojatollah Zakerzadeh
  • Ali Dolati

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30495/jme.v0i0.45

Keywords:

Gamma distribution, lifetime data, Lindley distribution, mixture, weibull model.

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a three{parameter generaliza- tion of the Lindley distribution. This includes as special cases the expo- nential and gamma distributions. The distribution exhibits decreasing, increasing and bathtub hazard rate depending on its parameters. We study various properties of the new distribution and provide numerical examples to show the °exibility of the model. We also derive a bivariate version of the proposed distribution.

Author Biographies

Hojatollah Zakerzadeh

Department of Statistics College of Mathematics Yazd University Yazd, 89195-741, Iran.

Ali Dolati

Department of Statistics College of Mathematics Yazd University Yazd, 89195-741, Iran

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Published

2009-03-02

Issue

Section

Vol. 3, No. 2 (2009)