scholarly journals A weighted negative binomial Lindley distribution with applications to dispersed data

2018 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 2617-2642 ◽  
Author(s):  
HASSAN S BAKOUCH
Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 603
Author(s):  
Abdulhakim A. Al-Babtain ◽  
Abdul Hadi N. Ahmed ◽  
Ahmed Z. Afify

In this paper, we propose and study a new probability mass function by creating a natural discrete analog to the continuous Lindley distribution as a mixture of geometric and negative binomial distributions. The new distribution has many interesting properties that make it superior to many other discrete distributions, particularly in analyzing over-dispersed count data. Several statistical properties of the introduced distribution have been established including moments and moment generating function, residual moments, characterization, entropy, estimation of the parameter by the maximum likelihood method. A bias reduction method is applied to the derived estimator; its existence and uniqueness are discussed. Applications of the goodness of fit of the proposed distribution have been examined and compared with other discrete distributions using three real data sets from biological sciences.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Binod Kumar Sah ◽  
A. Mishra

Background: The exponential and the Lindley (1958) distributions occupy central places among the class of continuous probability distributions and play important roles in statistical theory. A Generalised Exponential-Lindley Distribution (GELD) was given by Mishra and Sah (2015) of which, both the exponential and the Lindley distributions are the particular cases. Mixtures of distributions form an important class of distributions in the domain of probability distributions. A mixture distribution arises when some or all the parameters in a probability function vary according to certain probability law. In this paper, a Generalised Exponential- Lindley Mixture of Poisson Distribution (GELMPD) has been obtained by mixing Poisson distribution with the GELD. Materials and Methods: It is based on the concept of the generalisations of some continuous mixtures of Poisson distribution. Results: The Probability mass of function of generalized exponential-Lindley mixture of Poisson distribution has been obtained by mixing Poisson distribution with GELD. The first four moments about origin of this distribution have been obtained. The estimation of its parameters has been discussed using method of moments and also as maximum likelihood method. This distribution has been fitted to a number of discrete data-sets which are negative binomial in nature and it has been observed that the distribution gives a better fit than the Poisson–Lindley Distribution (PLD) of Sankaran (1970). Conclusion: P-value of the GELMPD is found greater than that in case of PLD. Hence, it is expected to be a better alternative to the PLD of Sankaran for similar type of discrete data-set which is negative binomial in nature.


2019 ◽  
pp. 317-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunthree Denthet ◽  
Pramoch Promin

Author(s):  
Hossein Zamani ◽  
Noriszura Ismail ◽  
Marzieh Shekari

This study introduces a new discrete distribution which is a weighted version of Poisson-Lindley distribution. The weighted distribution is obtained using the negative binomial weight function and can be fitted to count data with over-dispersion. The p.m.f., p.g.f. and simulation procedure of the new weighted distribution, namely weighted negative binomial Poisson-Lindley (WNBPL), are provided. The maximum likelihood method for parameter estimation is also presented. The WNBPL distribution is fitted to several insurance datasets, and is compared to the Poisson and negative binomial distributions in terms of several statistical tests.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
R. Shanker ◽  
K. K. Shukla

In this paper the nature and behavior of its coefficient of variation, skewness, kurtosis and index of dispersion of Poisson- weighted Lindley distribution (P-WLD), a Poisson mixture of weighted Lindley distribution, have been proposed and the nature and behavior have been explained graphically. Maximum likelihood estimation has been discussed to estimate its parameters. Applications of the proposed distribution have been discussed and its goodness of fit has been compared with Poisson distribution (PD), Poisson-Lindley distribution (PLD), negative binomial distribution (NBD) and generalized Poisson-Lindley distribution (GPLD).


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