THE COMPOSED ZERO TRUNCATED LINDLEY-POISSON DISTRIBUTION

ABSTRACT In this paper, a new compounding distribution, named zero truncated Lindley-Poisson distribution is introduced. The probability density function, cumulative distribution function, survival function, failure rate function and quantiles expressions of it are provided. The parameters estimativ...

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Autores: Santo, Ana Paula Jorge Do Espirito, Mazucheli, Josmar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/157573
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0101-7438.2016.036.03.0547
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/157573
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:compounding
estimation methods
Lindley distribution
survival analysis
zero truncated Poisson distribution
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Sumario:ABSTRACT In this paper, a new compounding distribution, named zero truncated Lindley-Poisson distribution is introduced. The probability density function, cumulative distribution function, survival function, failure rate function and quantiles expressions of it are provided. The parameters estimatives were obtained by six methods: maximum likelihood (MLE), ordinary least-squares (OLS), weighted least-squares (WLS), maximum product of spacings (MPS), Crame´r-von-Mises (CM) and Anderson-Darling (AD), and intensive simulation studies are conducted to evaluate the performance of parameter estimation. Some generalizations are also proposed. Application in a real data set is given and shows that the composed zero truncated Lindley-Poisson distribution provides better fit than the Lindley distribution and three of its generalizations. The paper is motivated by application in real data set and we hope this model may be able to attract wider applicability in survival and reliability.