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A note on ‘The exponentiated power Lomax distribution and its applications'
Author(s) -
Nadarajah Saralees,
Afuecheta Emmanuel
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
quality and reliability engineering international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1099-1638
pISSN - 0748-8017
DOI - 10.1002/qre.2839
Subject(s) - lomax distribution , reliability (semiconductor) , mathematics , power function , power (physics) , distribution (mathematics) , function (biology) , statistics , maximum likelihood , mathematical analysis , physics , thermodynamics , evolutionary biology , biology
Abd El‐Monsef, Sweilam and Sabry [ Quality and Reliability Engineering International , 2020, doi: 10.1002/qre.2780] proposed a four‐parameter exponentiated power Lomax distribution, derived its properties and illustrated three data applications. In this note, we show that several properties expressed in terms of infinite sums can be simplified to a known special function. We also show that certain one‐parameter distributions can provide better fits to at least two of the data sets considered.