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In reliability and life data analysis, the Weibull distribution is widely used to accommodate more data characteristics by changing the values of the parameters. We frequently observe many zeros or close to zero data points in reliability…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-06 Sumangal Bhattacharya , Ishapathik Das , Muralidharan Kunnummal

High-dimensional covariance estimation is notoriously sensitive to outliers. While statistically optimal estimators exist for general heavy-tailed distributions, they often rely on computationally expensive techniques like semidefinite…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Even He

The maximum ${\log}_q$ likelihood estimation method is a generalization of the known maximum $\log$ likelihood method to overcome the problem for modeling non-identical observations (inliers and outliers). The parameter $q$ is a tuning…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-16 Mehmet Niyazi Çankaya , Roberto Vila

This paper describes the use of survival analysis and simulation to model the lifetime of high voltage instrument transformers in the Dutch transmission sys-tem. To represent asset aging, the non-parametric Kaplan-Meier method is used to…

In this paper we extend the Weibull power series (WPS) class of distributions and named this new class as extended Weibull power series (EWPS) class of distributions. The EWPS distributions are related to series and parallel systems with a…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-08-01 Alice L. Morais , Silvia L. P. Ferrari

The Weibull distribution, with shape parameter $k>0$ and scale parameter $\lambda>0$, is one of the most popular parametric distributions in survival analysis with complete or censored data. Although inference of the parameters of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-20 Enes Makalic , Daniel F. Schmidt

A new 2 parameter unit Weibull distribution is defined on the unit interval (0,1). The methodology of deducing its PDF, some of its properties and related functions are discussed. The paper is supplied by many figures illustrating the new…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-17 Iman Mohammed Attia

Count data often exhibit overdispersion driven by heavy tails or excess zeros, making standard models (e.g., Poisson, negative binomial) insufficient for handling outlying observations. We propose a novel contaminated discrete Weibull (cDW)…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-14 Divan A. Burger , Janet van Niekerk , Emmanuel Lesaffre

In this paper, we introduce a new class of bivariate distributions called the bivariate exponentiated extended Weibull distributions. The model introduced here is of Marshall-Olkin type. This new class of bivariate distributions contains…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-07-28 Rasool Roozegar , Ali Akbar Jafari

This research develops a Bayesian framework for analyzing failure times using the Weibull distribution, addressing challenges in prior selection due to the lack of conjugate priors and multi-dimensional sufficient statistics. We propose an…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-16 Tobias Oketch , Mohammad Sepehrifar

To train an inference network jointly with a deep generative topic model, making it both scalable to big corpora and fast in out-of-sample prediction, we develop Weibull hybrid autoencoding inference (WHAI) for deep latent Dirichlet…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-28 Hao Zhang , Bo Chen , Dandan Guo , Mingyuan Zhou

The Weibull tail-coefficient (WTC) plays a crucial role in extreme value statistics when dealing with Weibull-type tails. Several distributions, such as normal, Gamma, Weibull, and Logistic distributions, exhibit this type of tail…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Lígia Henriques-Rodrigues , Frederico Caeiro , M. Ivette Gomes

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) aims to train segmentation models by weak labels, which is receiving significant attention due to its low annotation cost. Existing approaches focus on generating pseudo labels for supervision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Linshan Wu , Zhun Zhong , Jiayi Ma , Yunchao Wei , Hao Chen , Leyuan Fang , Shutao Li

The paper presents a comprehensive closed-form performance analysis framework for multihop communications over Weibull fading channels. The analyzed scheme consists basically of multiple regenerative relays with generalized high-order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Abdelaziz Soulimani , Mustapha Benjillali , Hatim Chergui , Daniel B. da Costa

This paper introduces a new generalization of the flexible Weibull distribution with three parameters this model called the Marshall-Olkin flexible Weibull extension (MO-FWE) distribution which exhibits bathtub-shaped hazard rate. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Abdelfattah Mustafa , B. S. El-Desouky , Shamsan AL-Garash

The Median Based Unit Weibull is a new 2 parameter unit Weibull distribution defined on the unit interval (0,1). Estimation of the parameters using MLE encountered some problems like large variance. Using generalized method of moments…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-30 Iman Mohamed Attia

We introduce a new five-parameter family of size distributions on the semi-finite interval $[x_0, \infty), x_0 \geqslant 0$, with two attractive features. First, it interpolates between power laws, such as the Pareto distribution, and power…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Corinne Sinner , Yves Dominicy , Christophe Ley , Julien Trufin , Patrick Weber

This paper presents a hierarchical Bayesian approach to the estimation of components' reliability (survival) using a Weibull model for each of them. The proposed method can be used to estimation with general survival censored data, because…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-07-17 Felipe L. Bhering , Carlos A. de B. Pereira , Adriano Polpo

We are concerned with the flexible parametric analysis of bivariate survival data. Elsewhere, we have extolled the virtues of the "power generalized Weibull" (PGW) distribution as an attractive vehicle for univariate parametric survival…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-11 M. C. Jones , Angela Noufaily , Kevin Burke

The Weibull distribution is a very applicable model for the lifetime data. For inference about two Weibull distributions using records, the shape parameters of the distributions are usually considered equal. However, there is not an…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-08-12 Hojatollah Zakerzadeh , Ali Akbar Jafari