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Activity Number: 66
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 2, 2009 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract - #303557
Title: On the Transmuted Weibull Probability Distribution
Author(s): Gokarna R. Aryal*+
Companies: Purdue University Calumet
Address: 2200 169th Street, Hammond, IN, 46323,
Keywords: Weibull distribution ; reliability ; transmutation map
Abstract:

In this talk we will present a generalization of the Weibull distribution using the quadratic rank transmutation map. It will be shown that the analytical results are quite useful to model the reliability data.

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