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An extended Gompertz-Makeham distribution with application to lifetime data.
- Source :
- Communications in Statistics: Simulation & Computation; Sep2018, Vol. 47 Issue 8, p2454-2475, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- In this paper, we propose an extension of the Gompertz-Makeham distribution. This distribution is called the transmuted Gompertz-Makeham (TGM). The new model which can handle bathtub-shaped, increasing, increasing-constant and constant hazard rate functions. This property makes TGM is useful in survival analysis. Various statistical and reliability measures of the model are obtained, including hazard rate function, moments, moment generating function (mgf), quantile function, random number generating, skewness, kurtosis, conditional moments, mean deviations, Bonferroni curve, Lorenz curve, Gini index, mean inactivity time, mean residual lifetime and stochastic ordering; we also obtain the density of the ith order statistic. Estimation of the model parameters is justified by the method of maximum likelihood. An application to real data demonstrates that the TGM distribution can provides a better fit than some other very well known distributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03610918
- Volume :
- 47
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Communications in Statistics: Simulation & Computation
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 131204155
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2017.1348517