Discrete Half-Logistic Distribution: Statistical Properties, Estimation, and Application

This article presented a novel discrete distribution with one parameter derived by the discretization approach and called the discrete half-logistic distribution. Its probability mass function and hazard function have different shapes. A variety of its statistical properties, including moments, probability generating function, incomplete moments, and order statistics, were determined mathematically. Maximum likelihood, moments, and proportion estimation methods were used to estimate its parameter. A simulation study conducts to check the various estimating method’s performance. By using a real data set, its flexibility is assessed. Lastly, it can model count data sets in a way that is compared with other distributions that are already in the scientific literature

Power unit inverse Lindley distribution with different measures of uncertainty, estimation and applications

This paper introduced and investigated the power unit inverse Lindley distribution (PUILD), a novel two-parameter generalization of the famous unit inverse Lindley distribution. Among its notable functional properties, the corresponding probability density function can be unimodal, decreasing, increasing, or right-skewed. In addition, the hazard rate function can be increasing, U-shaped, or N-shaped. The PUILD thus takes advantage of these characteristics to gain flexibility in the analysis of unit data compared to the former unit inverse Lindley distribution, among others. From a theoretical point of view, many key measures were determined under closed-form expressions, including mode, quantiles, median, Bowley's skewness, Moor's kurtosis, coefficient of variation, index of dispersion, moments of various types, and Lorenz and Bonferroni curves. Some important measures of uncertainty were also calculated, mainly through the incomplete gamma function. In the statistical part, the estimation of the parameters involved was studied using fifteen different methods, including the maximum likelihood method. The invariant property of this approach was then used to efficiently estimate different uncertainty measures. Some simulation results were presented to support this claim. The significance of the PUILD underlying model compared to several current statistical models, including the unit inverse Lindley, exponentiated Topp-Leone, Kumaraswamy, and beta and transformed gamma models, was illustrated by two applications using real datasets

Power-Modified Kies-Exponential Distribution: Properties, Classical and Bayesian Inference with an Application to Engineering Data

We introduce here a new distribution called the power-modified Kies-exponential (PMKE) distribution and derive some of its mathematical properties. Its hazard function can be bathtub-shaped, increasing, or decreasing. Its parameters are estimated by seven classical methods. Further, Bayesian estimation, under square error, general entropy, and Linex loss functions are adopted to estimate the parameters. Simulation results are provided to investigate the behavior of these estimators. The estimation methods are sorted, based on partial and overall ranks, to determine the best estimation approach for the model parameters. The proposed distribution can be used to model a real-life turbocharger dataset, as compared with 24 extensions of the exponential distribution

A New 3-Parameter Bounded Beta Distribution: Properties, Estimation, and Applications

This study presents a new three-parameter beta distribution defined on the unit interval, which can have increasing, decreasing, left-skewed, right-skewed, approximately symmetric, bathtub, and upside-down bathtub shaped densities, and increasing, U, and bathtub shaped hazard rates. This model can define well-known distributions with various parameters and supports, such as Kumaraswamy, beta exponential, exponential, exponentiated exponential, uniform, the generalized beta of the first kind, and beta power distributions. We present a comprehensive account of the mathematical features of the new model. Maximum likelihood methods and a Bayesian method under squared error and linear exponential loss functions are presented; also, approximate confidence intervals are obtained. We present a simulation study to compare all the results. Two real-world data sets are analyzed to demonstrate the utility and adaptability of the proposed model

A New 3-Parameter Bounded Beta Distribution: Properties, Estimation, and Applications

This study presents a new three-parameter beta distribution defined on the unit interval, which can have increasing, decreasing, left-skewed, right-skewed, approximately symmetric, bathtub, and upside-down bathtub shaped densities, and increasing, U, and bathtub shaped hazard rates. This model can define well-known distributions with various parameters and supports, such as Kumaraswamy, beta exponential, exponential, exponentiated exponential, uniform, the generalized beta of the first kind, and beta power distributions. We present a comprehensive account of the mathematical features of the new model. Maximum likelihood methods and a Bayesian method under squared error and linear exponential loss functions are presented; also, approximate confidence intervals are obtained. We present a simulation study to compare all the results. Two real-world data sets are analyzed to demonstrate the utility and adaptability of the proposed model

Estimation methods based on ranked set sampling for the power logarithmic distribution

Abstract The sample strategy employed in statistical parameter estimation issues has a major impact on the accuracy of the parameter estimates. Ranked set sampling (RSS) is a highly helpful technique for gathering data when it is difficult or impossible to quantify the units in a population. A bounded power logarithmic distribution (PLD) has been proposed recently, and it may be used to describe many real-world bounded data sets. In the current work, the three parameters of the PLD are estimated using the RSS technique. A number of conventional estimators using maximum likelihood, minimum spacing absolute log-distance, minimum spacing square distance, Anderson-Darling, minimum spacing absolute distance, maximum product of spacings, least squares, Cramer-von-Mises, minimum spacing square log distance, and minimum spacing Linex distance are investigated. The different estimates via RSS are compared with their simple random sampling (SRS) counterparts. We found that the maximum product spacing estimate appears to be the best option based on our simulation results for the SRS and RSS data sets. Estimates generated from SRS data sets are less efficient than those derived from RSS data sets. The usefulness of the RSS estimators is also investigated by means of a real data example

The Flexible Burr X-G Family: Properties, Inference, and Applications in Engineering Science

In this paper, we introduce a new flexible generator of continuous distributions called the transmuted Burr X-G (TBX-G) family to extend and increase the flexibility of the Burr X generator. The general statistical properties of the TBX-G family are calculated. One special sub-model, TBX-exponential distribution, is studied in detail. We discuss eight estimation approaches to estimating the TBX-exponential parameters, and numerical simulations are conducted to compare the suggested approaches based on partial and overall ranks. Based on our study, the Anderson–Darling estimators are recommended to estimate the TBX-exponential parameters. Using two skewed real data sets from the engineering sciences, we illustrate the importance and flexibility of the TBX-exponential model compared with other existing competing distributions

A case study for Kuwait mortality during the consequent waves of COVID-19

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on March 11, 2020, that COVID-19 could be considered a pandemic. This epidemic has become a huge issue for academics, doctors, healthcare providers, epidemiologists, and decision-makers alike. Motivated by studying natural phenomena, we concentrated on making a statistical model capable of fitting natural pandemics into the whole world. In this manuscript, we introduced a new novel distribution called the Inverse Power Haq (IPH) distribution. We created this distribution due to its formidable merits. We introduced its statistical properties and plotted its probability density function (PDF), cumulative distribution function (CDF), and hazard rate function (HRF). We utilized classical estimation techniques to determine the parameters for the suggested distribution. In the paper's conclusion, we performed a data analysis, applying the distribution to COVID-19 infection in Kuwait for practical purposes. Our analysis demonstrated the superior performance of the proposed distribution compared to its competitors, establishing it as the most suitable choice for modeling COVID-19 data in patients of different ages. Lastly, the conclusion section includes a summary of our overall findings and conclusions

The New Novel Discrete Distribution with Application on COVID-19 Mortality Numbers in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Latvia

This paper aims to introduce a superior discrete statistical model for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality numbers in Saudi Arabia and Latvia. We introduced an optimal and superior statistical model to provide optimal modeling for the death numbers due to the COVID-19 infections. This new statistical model possesses three parameters. This model is formulated by combining both the exponential distribution and extended odd Weibull family to formulate the discrete extended odd Weibull exponential (DEOWE) distribution. We introduced some of statistical properties for the new distribution, such as linear representation and quantile function. The maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) method is applied to estimate the unknown parameters of the DEOWE distribution. Also, we have used three datasets as an application on the COVID-19 mortality data in Saudi Arabia and Latvia. These three real data examples were used for introducing the importance of our distribution for fitting and modeling this kind of discrete data. Also, we provide a graphical plot for the data to ensure our results

Power Lambert uniform distribution: Statistical properties, actuarial measures, regression analysis, and applications

Here, we present a new bounded distribution known as the power Lambert uniform distribution, and we deduce some of its statistical properties such as quantile function, moments, incomplete moments, mean residual life and mean inactivity time, Lorenz, Bonferroni, and Zenga curves, and order statistics. We presented different shapes of the probability density function and the hazard function of the proposed model. Eleven traditional methods are used to estimate its parameters. The behavior of these estimators is investigated using simulation results. Some actuarial measures are derived mathematically for our proposed model. Some numerical computations for these actuarial measures are given for some choices of parameters and significance levels. A new quantile regression model is constructed based on the new unit distribution. The maximum likelihood estimation method is used to estimate the unknown parameters of the regression model. Furthermore, the usability of the new distribution and regression models is demonstrated with the COVID-19 and educational datasets, respectively