A New Lifetime Model: Properties, Estimation, and Applications in Quality Control
摘要
This paper introduces a new lifetime distribution derived by applying a transformation to the inverted Dagum distribution. We examine its statistical properties, including moments, hazard rate, quantile functions, and order statistics. The three unknown parameters are estimated using twelve methods, and a comprehensive Monte Carlo simulation reveals that the Kolmogorov-based estimator outperforms alternatives like maximum likelihood and least squares for some criteria. The proposed distribution demonstrates superior flexibility in modeling real data, outperforming established competitors such as the Dagum, inverted Dagum, extended Dagum, Gamma, and Weibull distributions in goodness-of-fit tests for two datasets: bladder cancer remission times and Thorium sediment measurements. Furthermore, we adapt the process capability index