Discriminating between Weibull and log-normal distributions based on Kullback-Leibler divergence

AA Bromıdeh - Istanbul University Econometrics and Statistics e …, 2012 - dergipark.org.tr
The Weibull and Log-Normal distributions are frequently used in reliability to analyze lifetime
(or failure time) data. The ratio of maximized likelihood (RML) has been extensively used in …

Discrimination between gamma and log-normal distributions by ratio of minimized Kullback-Leibler divergence

AA Bromideh, R Valizadeh - Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation …, 2013 - pjsor.com
Abstract The Gamma and Log-Normal distributions are frequently used in reliability to
analyze lifetime data. The two distributions overlap in many cases and make it difficult to …

[PDF][PDF] Estimation of the Weibull parameters by Kullback-Leibler divergence of Survival functions

G Yari, A Mirhabibi, A Saghafi - Appl. Math. Inf. Sci, 2013 - naturalspublishing.com
Recently, a new entropy based divergence measure has been introduced which is much like
Kullback-Leibler divergence. This entropy measures the distance between an empirical and …

Kullback–Leibler divergence: A quantile approach

PG Sankaran, SM Sunoj, NU Nair - Statistics & Probability Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Divergence measures play an important role in measuring the distance between two
probability distribution functions. Kullback–Leibler divergence function is a popular measure …

Quantile-based cumulative Kullback–Leibler divergence

SM Sunoj, PG Sankaran, N Unnikrishnan Nair - Statistics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The paper introduces a quantile-based cumulative Kullback–Leibler divergence and study
its various properties. Unlike the distribution function approach, the quantile-based measure …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling lifetime data with Weibull-Lindley distribution

TG Ieren, SO Oyamakin, AU Chukwu - Biometrics and Biostatistics …, 2018 - academia.edu
In this paper a new extension of the Lindley distribution is presented using the Weibull link
function introduced and studied by Tahir et al., 1 to develop a Weibull-Lindley distribution …

[PDF][PDF] Estimation of the coefficient of variation for lindley distribution based on progressive first failure censored data

MMM El-Din, MM Amein… - J Stat Appl …, 2019 - naturalspublishing.com
In applied statistics, the coefficient of variation (CV) of a distribution is considered as one of
the useful descriptive measures for describing variability. However, inferences concerning …

Kullback-Leibler information of the equilibrium distribution function and its application to goodness of fit test

S Park, D Choi, S Jung - Communications for Statistical …, 2014 - koreascience.kr
Kullback-Leibler (KL) information is a measure of discrepancy between two probability
density functions. However, several nonparametric density function estimators have been …

[HTML][HTML] Parameter estimations for some modifications of the Weibull distribution

S Ghnimi, S Gasmi - Open Journal of Statistics, 2014 - scirp.org
Proposed by the Swedish engineer and mathematician Ernst Hjalmar Waloddi Weibull
(1887-1979), the Weibull distribution is a probability distribution that is widely used to model …

Weibull and inverse Weibull composite distribution for modeling reliability data

K Cooray, S Gunasekera… - Model assisted statistics …, 2010 - content.iospress.com
The Weibull distribution, frequently used for life data analysis, is composited with inverse
Weibull distribution to obtain a computationally convenient parametric distribution for …