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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.

The subject matter described herein includes the analysis of the stress-strength reliability of the system, in which the discrete strength of the system is impacted by two random discrete stresses. The reliability function of such systems is denoted by $ R = P[Y < X < Z] $, where $ X $ is the strength of the system and $ Y $ and $ Z $ are the stresses. We look at how $ X $, $ Y $ and $ Z $ fit into a well-known discrete distribution known as the geometric distribution. The stress-strength reliability of this form is not widely studied in the current literature, and research in this area has only considered the scenario when the strength and stress variables follow a continuous distribution, although it is essentially nil in the case of discrete stress and strength. There are numerous applications wherein a system is exposed to external stress, and its functionality depends on whether its intrinsic physical strength falls within specific stress limits. Furthermore, the continuous measurement of stress and strength variables presents inherent difficulties and inconveniences in such scenarios. For the suggested distribution, we obtain the maximum likelihood estimate of the variable $ R $, as well as its asymptotic distribution and confidence interval. Additionally, in the classical setup, we find the boot-p and boot-t confidence intervals for $ R $. In the Bayesian setup, we utilize the widely recognized Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique and the Lindley approximation method to find the Bayes estimate of $ R $ under the squared error loss function. A Monte Carlo simulation study and real data analysis are demonstrated to show the applicability of the suggested model in the real world.

In this article, we make mathematical and practical contributions to the Bell-X family of absolutely continuous distributions. As a main member of this family, a special distribution extending the modeling perspectives of the famous Burr XII (BXII) distribution is discussed in detail. It is called the Bell-Burr XII (BBXII) distribution. It stands apart from the other extended BXII distributions because of its flexibility in terms of functional shapes. On the theoretical side, a linear representation of the probability density function and the ordinary and incomplete moments are among the key properties studied in depth. Some commonly used entropy measures, namely Rényi, Havrda and Charvat, Arimoto, and Tsallis entropy, are derived. On the practical (inferential) side, the associated parameters are estimated using seven different frequentist estimation methods, namely the methods of maximum likelihood estimation, percentile estimation, least squares estimation, weighted least squares estimation, Cramér von-Mises estimation, Anderson-Darling estimation, and right-tail Anderson-Darling estimation. A simulation study utilizing all these methods is offered to highlight their effectiveness. Subsequently, the BBXII model is successfully used in comparisons with other comparable models to analyze data on patients with acute bone cancer and arthritis pain. A group acceptance sampling plan for truncated life tests is also proposed when an item's lifetime follows a BBXII distribution. Convincing results are obtained.

In this paper, a promising modeling strategy for data fitting is derived from a new general class of univariate continuous distributions. This class is governed by an original logarithmically-exponential one-parameter transformation which has the ability to enhance some modeling capabilities of any parental distribution. In relation to the current literature, it appears to be a "limit case" of the well-established truncated generalized Fréchet generated class. In addition, it offers a natural alternative to the famous odd inverse exponential generated class. Some special distributions are presented, with particular interest in a novel heavy-tailed three-parameter distribution based on the Lomax distribution. Functional equivalences, modes analysis, stochastic ordering, functional expansions, moment measures, information measures and reliability measures are derived. From generic or real data, our modeling strategy is based on the new class combined with the maximum likelihood approach. We apply this strategy to the introduced modified Lomax model. The efficiency of the three parameter estimates is validated by a simulation study. Subsequently, two referenced real data sets are adjusted according to the rules of the art; the first one containing environmental data and the second one, financial data. In particular, we show that the proposed model is preferable to four concurrents also derived from the Lomax model, including the odd inverse exponential Lomax model.

This article deals with the estimation of the finite population mean under probability proportional to size (PPS) sampling using information on the auxiliary variable along with the rank of the auxiliary variable. We propose a ratio, product and regression type estimators by incorporating the maximum and minimum values of the study variable and the auxiliary variable. The mathematical expressions of the proposed estimators are derived up to first order of approximation. Efficiency comparisons are made on the basis of real data sets.