Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications

Volume 17, Issue 4, December 2018, Pages 674 - 685

On Properties and Applications of a Two-Parameter Xgamma Distribution

Authors
Subhradev Sen1, *, N. Chandra2, Sudhansu S. Maiti3
1Alliance School of Business, Alliance University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
2Department of Statistics, Pondicherry University, Kalapet, Puducherry, India
3Department of Statistics, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, India
*

Corresponding author. Email: subhradev.stat@gmail.com

Received 10 January 2017, Accepted 11 February 2018, Available Online 31 December 2018.
DOI
10.2991/jsta.2018.17.4.9How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Lifetime distribution; maximum likelihood estimation; survival properties; reliability;
Abstract

An existing one-parameter probability distribution can be very well generalized by adding an extra parameter in it and, in turn, the two-parameter family of distributions, thus obtained, provides added flexibility in modeling real life data. In this article, we propose and study a two-parameter generalization of xgamma distribution [1] and utilize it in modeling time-to-event data sets. Along with the different structural and distributional properties of the proposed two-parameter xgamma distribution, we concentrate in studying useful survival and reliability properties, such as hazard rate, reversed hazard rate, stress-strength reliability etc. Two methods of estimation, viz. maximum likelihood and method of moments, are been suggested for estimating unknown parameters. Distributions of order statistics, stochastic order relationships are investigated for the proposed model. A Monte-Carlo simulation study is carried out to observe the trends in estimation process. Two real life time-to-event data sets are analyzed and the proposed model is compared with some other two-parameter lifetime models in the literature.

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Journal
Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications
Volume-Issue
17 - 4
Pages
674 - 685
Publication Date
2018/12/31
ISSN (Online)
2214-1766
ISSN (Print)
1538-7887
DOI
10.2991/jsta.2018.17.4.9How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc/4.0/).

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