scholarly journals The Location-Scale Mixture Exponential Power Distribution: A Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood Approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Z. Rahnamaei ◽  
N. Nematollahi ◽  
R. Farnoosh

We introduce an alternative skew-slash distribution by using the scale mixture of the exponential power distribution. We derive the properties of this distribution and estimate its parameter by Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian methods. By a simulation study we compute the mentioned estimators and their mean square errors, and we provide an example on real data to demonstrate the modeling strength of the new distribution.

Author(s):  
M. M. E. Abd El-Monsef ◽  
M. M. El-Awady

The exponential power distribution (EP) is a lifetime model that can exhibit increasing and bathtub hazard rate function. This paper proposed a generalization of EP distribution, named generalized exponential power (GEP) distribution. Some properties of GEP distribution will be investigated. Recurrence relations for single moments of generalized ordered statistics from GEP distribution are established and used for characterizing the GEP distribution. Estimation of the model parameters are derived using maximum likelihood method based on complete sample, type I, type II and random censored samples. A simulation study is performed in order to examine the accuracy of the maximum likelihood estimators of the model parameters. Three applications to real data, two with censored data, are provided in order to show the superiority of the proposed model to other models.


Author(s):  
Mehmet Niyazi Çankaya

The asymmetric bimodal exponential power (ABEP) distribution is an extension of the generalized gamma distribution to the real line via adding two parameters which fit the shape of peakedness in bimodality on real line. The special values of peakedness parameters of the distribution are combination of half Laplace and half normal distributions on real line. The distribution has two parameters fitting the height of bimodality, so capacity of bimodality is enhanced by using these parameters. Adding a skewness parameter is considered to model asymmetry in data. The location-scale form of this distribution is proposed. The Fisher information matrix of these parameters in ABEP is obtained explicitly. Properties of ABEP are examined. Real data examples are given to illustrate the modelling capacity of ABEP. The replicated artificial data from maximum likelihood estimates of parameters of ABEP and distributions having an algorithm for artificial data generation procedure are provided to test the similarity with real data.


The Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique is applied for estimating the Complementary Exponential Power (CEP) distribution's parameters through the analysis of complete sample in this article. With the help of the Bayesian and the Maximum Likelihood techniques, the unknown parameters of the model are estimated. To find Complementary Exponential Power distribution's parameters' Bayesian estimates, a new methodology is developed, via simulation method of MCMC through the application of OpenBUGS platform. To demonstrate under the gamma and uniform sets of priors, a real data set is taken. The generations of posterior MCMC samples is conducted with OpenBUGS software. For analyzing the output of so generated MCMC samples, and studying the statistical properties, distribution's comparison tools and model validation the functions of R have been used. The credible interval and predicted of the reliability, hazard and modal parameters' values are also estimated. We have shown that Bayesian estimators are more efficient than classical estimators for any real data set.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4 (109)) ◽  
pp. 64-73
Author(s):  
Serhii Zabolotnii ◽  
Vladyslav Khotunov ◽  
Anatolii Chepynoha ◽  
Olexandr Tkachenko

This paper considers the application of a method for maximizing polynomials in order to find estimates of the parameters of a multifactorial linear regression provided the random errors of the regression model follow an exponential power distribution. The method used is conceptually close to a maximum likelihood method because it is based on the maximization of selective statistics in the neighborhood of the true values of the evaluated parameters. However, in contrast to the classical parametric approach, it employs a partial probabilistic description in the form of a limited number of statistics of higher orders. The adaptive algorithm of statistical estimation has been synthesized, which takes into consideration the properties of regression residues and makes it possible to find refined values for the estimates of the parameters of a linear multifactorial regression using the numerical Newton-Rafson iterative procedure. Based on the apparatus of the quantity of extracted information, the analytical expressions have been derived that make it possible to analyze the theoretical accuracy (asymptotic variances) of estimates for the method of maximizing polynomials depending on the magnitude of the exponential power distribution parameters. Statistical modeling was employed to perform a comparative analysis of the variance of estimates obtained using the method of maximizing polynomials with the accuracy of classical methods: the least squares and maximum likelihood. Regions of the greatest efficiency for each studied method have been constructed, depending on the magnitude of the parameter of the form of exponential power distribution and sample size. It has been shown that estimates from the polynomial maximization method may demonstrate a much lower variance compared to the estimates from a least-square method. And, in some cases (for flat-topped distributions and in the absence of a priori information), may exceed the estimates from the maximum likelihood method in terms of accuracy


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