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Asymmetric distributions, as opposed to symmetric distributions, may be more resilient to extreme values or outliers. Furthermore, when data show substantial skewness, asymmetric distributions can shed light on the underlying processes or phenomena being investigated. In this direction, the size-biased Bilal distribution (SBBD) is suggested in this study as a generalization to the Bilal distribution. The length-biased and area-biased Bilal distributions are discussed in detail as two special cases. The main statistical properties of the distribution including the rth moment, coefficients of variation, skewness, kurtosis, moment generating function, incomplete moments, moments of residual life, harmonic mean, Fisher's information, and the Rényi entropy as a measure of uncertainty are presented. Graphical representations of the cumulative distribution, probability density, odds, survival, hazard, reversed hazard rate, and cumulative hazard functions are presented for further explanation of the distribution behavior. In addition, the methods of moments and maximum likelihood estimates are taken into account for estimating the model parameters. A simulation study is carried out to see the efficiency of the maximum likelihood in terms of standard errors and bias. Real data sets of precipitation and myeloid leukemia patients are considered to show the practical significance of the suggested distributions as an alternative to some well-known distributions such as the Rama, Rani, Bilal, and exponential distributions. It is found that the size-biased Bilal distribution is right-skewed and has a superior fitting performance compared to the other distributions in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Weighted distributions play an important role when observations from a sample are recorded with unequal probabilities. They are useful for the efficient modeling of statistical data when the original distributions are not appropriate. In this paper, a new weighted distribution is proposed. Various statistical properties of the proposed distribution such as survival function, hazard rate function, mean residual life function, moments, moment generating function, Bonferroni curve, Lorenz curve, and order statistic are presented. The Bayesian estimator of the distribution parameter is derived. The behavior of the Bayesian estimator is assessed by a simulation study. Furthermore, a regression model is developed based on the proposed distribution. Some real data applications are analyzed to show the potentiality of the proposed models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]