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A new generalization of the normal distribution: the gamma-normal distribution and its applications
Statistical distributions are commonly applied to describe real world phenomena. Due to the usefulness
of statistical distributions, their theory is widely studied and new distributions are developed. The
interest in developing more flexible statistical distributions remains strong in statistics profession. Many
generalized classes of distributions have been developed and applied to describe various phenomena.
Recently, Alzaatreh et al. (2014) developed a new method to generate family of distributions and called it
the gamma-X family of distributions
A new generalization of the normal distribution: the gamma-normal distribution and its applications
Statistical distributions are commonly applied to describe real world phenomena. Due to the usefulness
of statistical distributions, their theory is widely studied and new distributions are developed. The
interest in developing more flexible statistical distributions remains strong in statistics profession. Many
generalized classes of distributions have been developed and applied to describe various phenomena.
Recently, Alzaatreh et al. (2014) developed a new method to generate family of distributions and called it
the gamma-X family of distributions
The Beta Generalized Exponential Distribution
We introduce the beta generalized exponential distribution that includes the
beta exponential and generalized exponential distributions as special cases. We
provide a comprehensive mathematical treatment of this distribution. We derive
the moment generating function and the th moment thus generalizing some
results in the literature. Expressions for the density, moment generating
function and th moment of the order statistics also are obtained. We discuss
estimation of the parameters by maximum likelihood and provide the information
matrix. We observe in one application to real data set that this model is quite
flexible and can be used quite effectively in analyzing positive data in place
of the beta exponential and generalized exponential distributions
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