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Generalized Weibull Distributions

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Chin-Diew Lai

    1. Statistics and Bioinformatics Manawatu Campus, Massey University Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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  • One of the most cited lifetime distributions in reliability engineering
  • Recent updates are treated
  • Applications for each model are presented
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Statistics (BRIEFSSTATIST)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Weibull Distribution

    • Chin-Diew Lai
    Pages 1-21

  3. Generalized Weibull Distributions

    • Chin-Diew Lai
    Pages 23-75

  4. Models Involving Two or More Weibull Distributions

    • Chin-Diew Lai
    Pages 77-95

  5. Discrete Weibull Distributions and Their Generalizations

    • Chin-Diew Lai
    Pages 97-113

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 115-118
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About this book

The Weibull distribution has been one of the most cited lifetime distributions in reliability engineering. Over the last decade, many generalizations and extensions of the Weibull have been proposed in order to provide more flexibility than the traditional version when it comes to modeling lifetime data in diverse fields. This book offers an update on these developments, presenting the essential properties of each model. Several plots of density and hazard rate functions are also included, and a brief outline of known application(s) for each model is also given. ​

Reviews

“This brief monograph attempts to summarize the up-to-date status of the research and development of generalized Weibull distribution. … This book is a great resource for researchers in theory of statistical distributions, applied statisticians and reliability engineers who want a bird’s eye perspective of the most up-to-date synopsis on generalizations and modifications of the Weibull distribution.” (Hon Keung Tony Ng, Technometrics, Vol. 57 (1), February, 2015)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Statistics and Bioinformatics Manawatu Campus, Massey University Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Chin-Diew Lai

About the author

Chin-Diew Lai is a Professor of Statistics at Massey University, New Zealand. Dr Lai has published over 100 research articles and four monographs, including two published by Springer: “Stochastic Ageing and Dependence for Reliability” co-authored by M Xie, and “Continuous Bivariate Distributions,” 2nd edition, co-authored by N Balakrishnan.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Generalized Weibull Distributions

  • Authors: Chin-Diew Lai

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Statistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39106-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-39105-7Published: 30 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-39106-4Published: 17 October 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2191-544X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-5458

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 118

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Statistics, general

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