Parameter Estimation Method of Mixture Distribution for Construction Machinery

Xinting Zhai, Jixin Wang and Jinshi Chen

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2018, vol. 2018, 1-9

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Due to the harsh working environment of the construction machinery, a simple distribution cannot be used to approximate the shape of the rainflow matrix. In this paper, the Weibull-normal (W-n) mixture distribution is used. The lowest Akaike information criterion (AIC) value is employed to determine the components number of the mixture. A parameter estimation method based on the idea of optimization is proposed. The method estimates parameters of the mixture by maximizing the log likelihood function (LLF) using an intelligent optimization algorithm (IOA), genetic algorithm (GA). To verify the performance of the proposed method, one of the already existing methods is applied in the simulation study and the practical case study. The fitting effects of the fitted distributions are compared by calculating the AIC and chi-square ( ) value. It can be concluded that the proposed method is feasible and effective for parameter estimation of the mixture distribution.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1155/2018/3124048

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