The Weibull lifetime model with randomised failure-free time

Sulewski Piotr () and Szymkowiak Magdalena ()
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Sulewski Piotr: Institute of Exact and Technical Sciences, Pomeranian University, Poland .
Szymkowiak Magdalena: Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics, Poznan University of Technology, Poland .

Statistics in Transition New Series, 2022, vol. 23, issue 4, 59-76

Abstract: The paper shows that treating failure-free time in the three-parameter Weibull distribution not a constant, but as a random variable makes the resulting distribution much more flexible at the expense of only one additional parameter.

Keywords: Weibull lifetime model; randomised failure-free time; compound Weibull distributions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.2478/stattrans-2022-0042

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