Fitting Two-Parameter Discrete Distributions to Many Data Sets with One Common Parameter

Author(s):  
G. H. Freeman
2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tassaddaq Hussain ◽  
Muhammad Aslam ◽  
Munir Ahmad

<p>In this article we have proposed and discussed a two parameter discrete Lindley distribution. The derivation of this new model is based on a two step methodology i.e. mixing then discretizing, and can be viewed as a new generalization of geometric distribution. The proposed model has proved itself as the least loss of information model when applied to a number of data sets (in an over and under dispersed structure). The competing models such as Poisson, Negative binomial, Generalized Poisson and discrete gamma distributions are the well known standard discrete distributions. Its Lifetime classification, kurtosis, skewness, ascending and descending factorial moments as well as its recurrence relations, negative moments, parameters estimation via maximum likelihood method, characterization and discretized bi-variate case are presented.</p>


Author(s):  
Barinaadaa John Nwikpe ◽  
Isaac Didi Essi

A new two-parameter continuous distribution called the Two-Parameter Nwikpe (TPAN) distribution is derived in this paper. The new distribution is a mixture of gamma and exponential distributions. A few statistical properties of the new probability distribution have been derived. The shape of its density for different values of the parameters has also been established.  The first four crude moments, the second and third moments about the mean of the new distribution were derived using the method of moment generating function. Other statistical properties derived include; the distribution of order statistics, coefficient of variation and coefficient of skewness. The parameters of the new distribution were estimated using maximum likelihood method. The flexibility of the Two-Parameter Nwikpe (TPAN) distribution was shown by fitting the distribution to three real life data sets. The goodness of fit shows that the new distribution outperforms the one parameter exponential, Shanker and Amarendra distributions for the data sets used for this study.


2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Monroe

In item response theory (IRT) modeling, the Fisher information matrix is used for numerous inferential procedures such as estimating parameter standard errors, constructing test statistics, and facilitating test scoring. In principal, these procedures may be carried out using either the expected information or the observed information. However, in practice, the expected information is not typically used, as it often requires a large amount of computation. In the present research, two methods to approximate the expected information by Monte Carlo are proposed. The first method is suitable for less complex IRT models such as unidimensional models. The second method is generally applicable but is designed for use with more complex models such as high-dimensional IRT models. The proposed methods are compared to existing methods using real data sets and a simulation study. The comparisons are based on simple structure multidimensional IRT models with two-parameter logistic item models.


Author(s):  
G.G. Hamedani ◽  
Mahrokh Najaf ◽  
Amin Roshani ◽  
Nadeem Shafique Butt

In this paper, certain characterizations of twenty newly proposed discrete distributions: the discrete gen- eralized Lindley distribution of El-Morshedy et al.(2021), the discrete Gumbel distribution of Chakraborty et al.(2020), the skewed geometric distribution of Ong et al.(2020), the discrete Poisson X gamma distri- bution of Para et al.(2020), the discrete Cos-Poisson distribution of Bakouch et al.(2021), the size biased Poisson Ailamujia distribution of Dar and Para(2021), the generalized Hermite-Genocchi distribution of El-Desouky et al.(2021), the Poisson quasi-xgamma distribution of Altun et al.(2021a), the exponentiated discrete inverse Rayleigh distribution of Mashhadzadeh and MirMostafaee(2020), the Mlynar distribution of Fr¨uhwirth et al.(2021), the flexible one-parameter discrete distribution of Eliwa and El-Morshedy(2021), the two-parameter discrete Perks distribution of Tyagi et al.(2020), the discrete Weibull G family distribution of Ibrahim et al.(2021), the discrete Marshall–Olkin Lomax distribution of Ibrahim and Almetwally(2021), the two-parameter exponentiated discrete Lindley distribution of El-Morshedy et al.(2019), the natural discrete one-parameter polynomial exponential distribution of Mukherjee et al.(2020), the zero-truncated discrete Akash distribution of Sium and Shanker(2020), the two-parameter quasi Poisson-Aradhana distribution of Shanker and Shukla(2020), the zero-truncated Poisson-Ishita distribution of Shukla et al.(2020) and the Poisson-Shukla distribution of Shukla and Shanker(2020) are presented to complete, in some way, the au- thors’ works.


Author(s):  
Russell Cheng

This chapter illustrates use of (i) the score statistic and (ii) a goodness-of-fit statistic to test if an embedded model provides an adequate fit, in the latter case with critical values calculated by bootstrapping. Also illustrated is (iii) calculation of parameter confidence intervals and CDF confidence bands using both asymptotic theory and bootstrapping, and (iv) use of profile log-likelihood plots to display the form of the maximized log-likelihood and scatterplots for checking convergence to normality of estimated parameter distributions. Two different data sets are analysed. In the first, the generalized extreme value (GEVMin) distribution and its embedded model the simple extreme value (EVMin) are fitted to Kevlar-fibre breaking strength data. In the second sample, the four-parameter Burr XII distribution, its three-parameter embedded models, the GEVMin, Type II generalized logistic and Pareto and two-parameter embedded models, the EVMin and shifted exponential, are fitted to carbon-fibre strength data and compared.


1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 525-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Pitman

Invariance of a random discrete distribution under size-biased permutation is equivalent to a conjunction of symmetry conditions on its finite-dimensional distributions. This is applied to characterize residual allocation models with independent factors that are invariant under size-biased permutation. Apart from some exceptional cases and minor modifications, such models form a two-parameter family of generalized Dirichlet distributions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
Rama Shanker ◽  
Kamlesh Kumar Shukla

A zero-truncated discrete two-parameter Poisson-Lindley distribution (ZTDTPPLD), which includes zero-truncated Poisson-Lindley distribution (ZTPLD) as a particular case, has been introduced. The proposed distribution has been obtained by compounding size-biased Poisson distribution (SBPD) with a continuous distribution. Its raw moments and central moments have been given. The coefficients of variation, skewness, kurtosis, and index of dispersion have been obtained and their nature and behavior have been studied graphically. Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) has been discussed for estimating its parameters. The goodness of fit of ZTDTPPLD has been discussed with some data sets and the fit shows satisfactory over zero – truncated Poisson distribution (ZTPD) and ZTPLD. Journal of Institute of Science and TechnologyVolume 22, Issue 2, January 2018, Page: 76-85


1982 ◽  
Vol 47 (12) ◽  
pp. 3177-3187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimír Dohnal ◽  
František Veselý ◽  
Robert Holub ◽  
Jiří Pick

Vapour-liquid equilibrium and heats of mixing were measured in the ethanol-acetonitrile system. The isobaric vapour-liquid equilibrium measurements were carried out at the pressures of 43.35, 56.44, 69.48 and 86.05 kPa and the heats of mixing were measured at the temperatures of 298.15, 308.15 and 318.15 K. The individual vapour-liquid equilibrium data sets were correlated by various two-parameter equations and the data on heats of mixing by the Redlich-Kister polynomial. The extensive data obtained for both excess functions, covering the temperature range of 50 K, were correlated successfully by the Wilson equation with the energy parameters linearly dependent on temperature.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohieddine Rahmouni ◽  
Ayman Orabi

This paper introduces a new two-parameter lifetime distribution, called the exponential-generalized truncated geometric (EGTG) distribution, by compounding the exponential with the generalized truncated geometric distributions. The new distribution involves two important known distributions, i.e., the exponential-geometric (Adamidis and Loukas, 1998) and the extended (complementary) exponential-geometric distributions (Adamidis et al., 2005; Louzada et al., 2011) in the minimum and maximum lifetime cases, respectively. General forms of the probability distribution, the survival and the failure rate functions as well as their properties are presented for some special cases. The application study is illustrated based on two real data sets.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document