Term of Award

Summer 2014

Degree Name

Master of Science in Mathematics (M.S.)

Document Type and Release Option

Thesis (open access)

Department

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Committee Chair

Broderick O. Oluyede

Committee Member 1

Charles W. Champ

Committee Member 2

Arpita Chatterjee

Abstract

In this thesis, new classes of Weibull and inverse Weibull distributions including the generalized new modified Weibull (GNMW), gamma-generalized inverse Weibull (GGIW), the weighted proportional inverse Weibull (WPIW) and inverse new modified Weibull (INMW) distributions are introduced. The GNMW contains several sub-models including the new modified Weibull (NMW), generalized modified Weibull (GMW), modified Weibull (MW), Weibull (W) and exponential (E) distributions, just to mention a few. The class of WPIW distributions contains several models such as: length-biased, hazard and reverse hazard proportional inverse Weibull, proportional inverse Weibull, inverse Weibull, inverse exponential, inverse Rayleigh, and Frechet distributions as special cases. Included in the GGIW distribution are the sub-models: gamma-generalized inverse Weibull, gamma-generalized Frechet, gamma-generalized inverse Rayleigh, gamma-generalized inverse exponential, inverse Weibull, inverse Rayleigh, inverse exponential, Frechet distributions. The INMW distribution contains several sub-models including inverse Weibull, inverse new modified exponential, inverse new modified Rayleigh, new modified Frechet, inverse modified Weibull, inverse Rayleigh and inverse exponential distributions as special cases. Properties of these distributions including the behavior of the hazard function, moments, coefficients of variation, skewness, and kurtosis, s-entropy, distribution of order statistic and Fisher information are presented. Estimates of the parameters of the models via method of maximum likelihood (ML) are presented. Extensive simulation study is conducted and numerical examples are given.

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