A weighted negative binomial Lindley distribution with applications to dispersed data

A new discrete distribution is introduced. The distribution involves the negative binomial and size biased negative binomial distributions as sub-models among others and it is a weighted version of the two parameter discrete Lindley distribution. The distribution has various interesting properties, such as bathtub shape hazard function along with increasing/decreasing hazard rate, positive skewness, symmetric behavior, and overand under-dispersion. Moreover, it is self decomposable and infinitely divisible, which makes the proposed distribution well suited for count data modeling. Other properties are investigated, including probability generating function, ordinary moments, factorial moments, negative moments and characterization. Estimation of the model parameters is investigated by the methods of moments and maximum likelihood, and a performance of the estimators is assessed by a simulation study. The credibility of the proposed distribution over the negative binomial, Poisson and generalized Poisson distributions is discussed based on some test statistics and four real data sets.


INTRODUCTION
In observational studies it is observed that due to lack of well defined sampling frames for plant, human, insect, wildlife and fish populations, the scientists/ researchers cannot select sampling units with equal probability.As a result the recorded observations on individuals in these populations are biased unless every observation is given an equal chance of being recorded.As such biased data arise in all disciplines of science, so statisticians and researchers have done their best to find out solutions for correction of the biases.In this regard, the weighted distribution theory gives a unified approach for modeling biased data, Fisher (1934), later on Rao (1985) and Patil (1991) studied it in a unified manner.Those pioneers have pointed out the situations in which the recorded observations cannot be considered as a random sample from the original distribution like non-experimental, non-replicated and non-random categories.This may be due to one or more reasons, such as non-observability of some events, damage caused to original observations and adoption of unequal probability sampling (see Jain et al. 2014).Patil and Rao (1977) stated that "Although the situations that involve weighted distributions seem to occur frequently in various fields, the underlying concept of weighted distributions as a major stochastic concept does not seem to have been widely recognized", the same quote is applicable today but, unfortunately a rare work is seen on this topic.
In order to remove the biases and to obtain the suitable distribution, the researchers usually adopt the approach of weighted concept of biased observation which leads towards the development of a weighted distribution.For a non-negative integer valued random variable X, its probability mass function can be defined as P(X = k) = p(k; θ ), k ∈ N 0 = {0, 1, ...}, where θ is a vector parameter, and let ω(k) be a non negative function on N 0 , which does not need to be zero or one and may exceed unity but it should have a finite expectation, i.e., E(ω(X = k)) = ∑ ∞ k=0 ω(k)P(X = k) < ∞.Suppose that when the event occurs, the weight ω(k) is used to adjust the probability.Therefore, the record k is thus the realization of count random variable Y which is a weighted version of X and its probability mass function (pmf) is given by where ω(k; ψ) :≡ ω(k) can depend on a parameter ψ representing the recording mechanism, and it may also be connected to the underlying initial vector parameter θ .A detailed account of weight functions is available in Patil and Rao (1986).Some particular cases of the weight functions are the standard distributions with ω(k; ψ) =Constant, ∀ k ∈ N 0 , the size-biased distributions with weight ω(k; ψ) = k, ∀k ∈ N 0 , the popular COM-Poisson with weight ω(k; ψ) = (k!) 1−ψ , ∀k ∈ N 0 (see Balakrishnan 2014, pp. 511-512), Neel and Schull (1966) proposed the weighted Poisson distribution with a weight as Poisson distribution, i.e., ω(k; ψ) = ψ k e −ψ k! , ψ > 0, ∀ k ∈ N 0 and binomial distribution with weight function ω(k; ψ Kokonendji and Casany 2012).
In this paper, we construct a weighted version of the two parameter discrete Lindley distribution introduced by Hussain et al. (2016) by making use of the weight function ω(k; β ) = β +k−1 k .Construction and motivations of the introduced distribution are outlined in the section below.Rest of the paper is organized as follows.The section 'Statistical Properties Of The WNBL Distribution' gives several properties of the proposed distribution, such as probability generating function, moments, factorial moments, recurrence relation between moments and negative moments.In the section 'Parameter Estimation and Inference', the estimation of the model parameters is investigated by the methods of moments and maximum likelihood, and performance of the estimators is assessed by a simulation study.A characterization for the distribution via the probability generating function is investigated with a discussion to self decomposability and infinite divisibility.Credibility of the proposed distribution over the negative binomial, Poisson and generalized Poisson distributions is also discussed based on some evaluation statistics and four real data sets.The last section gives the drawn conclusion.Hussain et al. (2016) developed the two parameter discrete Lindley distribution with the pmf
Hereafter, the weighted version of the two parameter discrete Lindley distribution shall be denoted by the weighted negative binomial Lindley (WNBL) distribution.Now, we give some motivations for the proposed distribution.
Motivation 1.The pmf of the negative binomial (NB) distribution is given as or equivalently where k denotes the number of failures/success before the β th failure/success, p is the probability of success and C is the normalization constant which equals (1 − p) β .In the NB distribution, we repeat the number of Bernoulli trials in order to obtain a fixed number of successes, while if the number of failures/successes increases linearly on each trial then the probability of exactly k failures/successes can be expressed as where A = q β +1 q+β 2 p , β ∈ N 0 ⊆ (0, ∞) , which is the pmf of the WNBL distribution.Moreover, it can be noted that the probability function given by ( 2) is a generalized form of the NB with vector parameter (2, p) and also the discrete Lindley with vector parameter (1, p).
Motivation 2. The binomial coefficient β +k−1 k in the equation (3) represents the number of ways in which the fixed number of failures/successes are obtained when these failures/successes increase linearly on each trial.
Motivation 3. It is also worth mentioning that the model given in equation ( 3) is recognized as a mixture of the NB distribution and the size biased negative binomial distribution (SBNB), that is, Motivation 4.
The model given by (3) can describe the thunderstorm activities as shall be outlined in the application section using two real data sets from such area.Thunderstorms activities often affect the planning of space missions and launch operations at different launching stations because of unstable meteorological norms associated with them.For this purpose several statistical distributions are used to represent the variation of the thunderstorms activities and search out that negative binomial and its modified forms are usually preferred for such activities (see Sakamoto 1973).Therefore, we model such activities by introducing a weighted and mixed version of the negative binomial and Lindley distributions.The weighted distributions are important for the adjustment of probability of occurrences and removal of biasedness from the data, while the mixed distributions are usually used in heterogeneous and over-dispersed data sets.The proposed model not only overcomes the heterogeneity issue but also handles the over-dispersion because of its mixture representation which makes it better than the negative binomial, Poisson and generalized Poisson distributions.
Further motivations for the WNBL distribution are given in the next notes.Figure 1 portrays that the WNBL distribution shows symmetrical behavior when p < 0.20 and β increases.Whereas, for smaller β and higher p, the distribution becomes positively skewed.The distribution also exhibits bimodal and reverse J shapes.Now, we give two prime measures of the distribution.The survival and hazard rate functions of the WNBL distribution are and respectively.Where and (a) n = a(a + 1)(a + 2) . . .(a + n − 1), are the hypergeometric series function and the Pochhammer's symbol, respectively, the series converges for a, b, c ≥ 0 and |z| ≤ 1.
therefore, the hazard rate function of the WNBL distribution is bounded above, which is an important property for the lifetime models.Figure 2 displays increasing, decreasing and bathtub shape (BTS) hazard functions.It is observed that the traditional statistical distributions, such as the Poisson, generalized Poisson and NB distributions, cannot be used efficiently in models of count data with many zeros.The Poisson distribution tends to under-estimate the number of zeros, while the NB may over-estimate zeros (see Saengthong and Bodhisuwan 2013).Although the traditional count models have generally increasing or decreasing failure rates yet unable to exhibit BTS hazard rates.
In view of the discussion above, some other motivational factors of the proposed model shall be outlined later and they are: i) Possessing BTS hazard function along with increasing/decreasing hazard rate characteristics which are seldom observed in discrete distributions.ii) Possessing bounded hazard function.iii) Being an over-and under-dispersed statistical model.iv) Being a self decomposable and infinitely divisible model.v) Being a characterizable function which is a milestone in model selection.

STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE WNBL DISTRIBUTION
The recognition of any discrete probability distribution is usually based on its probability generating function (pgf).The following theorem gives the pgf of the WNBL distribution.Proposition1: If Y ∼ WNBL (p, β ), then the pgf of the random variable Y is expressed as where p ∈ (0, 1) and β ≥ 0.
Proof: The pgf from the definition is expressed as which by simplification, equation ( 6) is obtained, which completes the proof.
Corollary 1: In equation ( 6), if t is replaced by e t , we get the moment generating function (mgf) of the WNBL distribution as where 0 < pe t < 1.
The r th derivatives of equation ( 7) with respect to t at t = 0 yield the moments.In particular, for r = 1, we have for r = 2, we have for r = 3, we have and for r = 4, we have Moreover, by definition, the r th non central moment can be expressed as An Acad Bras Cienc (2018) 90 (3) Differentiating the equation above with respect to p, we get which by simplification yields the recurrence relation Similarly, by definition, the r th central moment can be expressed as Differentiating the above equation with respect to p and simplifying it, we get

OVER-AND UNDER-DISPERSION
In statistics, the phenomenon of over-and under-dispersion relative to the Poisson distribution is generally observed in count data and well known in statistical literature.There are various causes of such phenomenon, like heterogeneity and aggregation for over-dispersion and repulsion for under-dispersion although less frequent (see Kokonendji and Mizre 2005).In order to see the reflection of over-and under-dispersion pattern, the researchers usually take the support of the index of dispersion (ID) which is defined as variance-to-mean ratio, which indicates the suitability of distribution in, under-or over-dispersed data sets.If ID > 1(< 1) the distribution is over-dispersed (under-dispersed).The index of dispersion for the WNBL distribution is .
For indicating the dispersion pattern we first consider that β < 1 which implies that Therefore, the WNBL is an over-dispersed model for all values of p.

OTHER MOMENTS MEASURES
The following theorems gives factorial moments and negative moments.
Proof: The r th descending factorial moment for Y can be defined as µ By using the binomial series After some algebraic manipulation, the equation ( 8) is attained and it generates a recursive relation between r and (r − 1) descending factorial moments as where r = 1, 2, . . .,which completes the proof.
Theorem 2: If Y ∼ WNBL (p, β ), the r th ascending factorial moment of Y is given by where c) n n! , we get the equation ( 10), where

By using the hypergeometric series function
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Thus the theorem is proved.
As it is known, the ordinary moments are generally helpful in estimating the unknown parameters.However, due to recent developments in inverse theory of the random variables, the negative moments are gaining momentum in life testing phenomena, estimation purposes and identifying the models.The negative moments are being used in irreversible damage to manufacturing materials due to damage process such as creep, corrosion, creep fracture, wear, shrinkage, aging and cracking (see Ahmad 2007).Therefore, the next theorem deals with the negative moments of the WNBL distribution.Theorem 3: If Y ∼ WNBL(p, β ), the first order negative moment of Y is given by where p ∈ (0, 1) x+a , we have By simplification, we get the equation ( 11) where This completes the proof.
Corollary 2: The s th order negative moment of Y ∼ WNBL(p, β ) can be expressed as the series converges for s = u + 1 and |z| < 1.

PARAMETER ESTIMATION AND INFERENCE
In this section, estimation of parameters of the distribution is investigated by the methods of moments (MM) and maximum likelihood (ML), and a performance of the estimators is assessed by a simulation study.

MOMENTS METHOD
Let Y 1 ,Y 2 , . . .,Y n be a random sample drawn from the WNBL distribution with the observed values x 1 , x 2 , . . ., x n .Equating the first two sample moments, x 2 i , with their associated population moments then the MM estimators of the WNBL are obtained.
Alternatively, the MM estimators can also be obtained using the suggested approach by Khan et al. (1989) via minimizing the expression with respect to p and β .Hence, yields two equations which are not in closed form, so parameters are estimated using numerical optimization techniques via Mathematica 8 computational packages.

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD
If Y 1 ,Y 2 , . . .,Y n is a random sample drawn from the WNBL distribution with the observed values x 1 , x 2 , . . ., x n , then we get the log-likelihood function By partially differentiating both sides of the equation above with respect to p and β and equating them to zero, we get the MLEs of p and β , respectively, as and Similarly, the second derivatives of the equations ( 12) and ( 13) with respect to p and β , respectively, are and Also, the second derivative of equation ( 12) with respect to β or equation ( 13) with respect to p yields , dz n is the logarithmic derivative of the gamma function.The MLEs are computed using computational packages, such as Mathematica 7. In view of the regularity conditions (see Rohatgi and Saleh 2002, pp. 419), we observed that the MLEs of WNBL parameters satisfy such conditions, where i) exist for all values of p and β , iii ≤ 0 for all values of p and β .
Moreover, the MLEs p and β of the WNBL distribution have an asymptotic bivariate normal distribution with vector mean (p,β ) and variance-covariance matrix (I(p, β )) −1 , where I(p, β ) denotes the information matrix given by , where The expectations above can be obtained numerically.

SIMULATION SCHEME
As it is mentioned in the introduction that the WNBL(p, β ) distribution can be viewed as a mixture of the negative binomial, NB(p, β ), and size biased negative binomial, SBNB(p, β ), distributions.So, in order to generate random data k i , i = 1, 2, ...n, from the WNBL we used the following algorithm.

SIMULATION STUDY
In this section, we perform some numerical experiments to see how the estimates studied by using the above listed methods (MM and ML) as well as their asymptotic results for finite samples.All the numerical results are performed via Mathematica 8 using the random numbers generator code.We consider the following different model parameters.Model-I: β = 0.0542, p = 0.7487, Model-II: β = 30.4389,p = 0.0157 and Model-III: β = 5.2856, p = 0.6398 for both MMEs and MLEs.We consider the following sample sizes n = 20 (small), 50 (moderate), and 100, 200, 500 (large).For each set of the model parameters and for each sample size, we compute the MMEs and MLEs of each β and p.We repeat this process 1000 times and compute the average bias and mean square error (MSE) for all replications in the relevant sample sizes.The results are reported in Tables I and II.
Discussion: Some notes are very clear from the simulation studies, such as the bias decreases as sample size increases for both MLEs and MMEs.Moreover, we conclude that the bias takes negative and positive signs, and it approaches to the value zero for both signs while the MSE decreases as the sample size increases.

CHARACTERIZATION
Characterization of probability functions is of importance to determine the exact probability distribution, which means that under certain conditions a family of distributions is the only one possessing a designated property which will resolve the problem of model identification.Therefore, the next theorem gives characterization of the WNBL distribution.
Proof: If Y has the WNBL distribution given by (3), then the equation ( 14) is satisfied.
For r = 2 and µ (1) expressed in the above equation, we get ) .
and so on.Since, factorial moment generating function is defined as by substituting µ (0) , µ (1) , µ (2) , µ (3) and so on in equation ( 15) we get After some algebra, we get Replacing (1 + t) by t we have By calculating the x th derivative of G Y (t) at t = 0, yields equation (3).This completes the proof.

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DISCRETE ANALOGUES OF SELF-DECOMPOSABILITY Definition 5.1 (α-thinning) Let X be a non-negative integer-valued random variable and let α ∈ [0, 1], then the α-thinning of X using the Steutel and van Harn operator is defined by α where Z i (i = 1, 2, ..., X) are mutually independent Bernoulli random variables with P(Z i = 1) = α and P(Z i = 0) = 1 − α.Additionally, the random variables Z i are independent of X.The pgf Definition 5.2 (Discrete Infinite divisibility) Let X be a non-negative integer-valued random variable, then X is said to be infinitely-divisible, for every non negative integer n, if X can be represented as a sum of n independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) non-negative random variables X n;i (i = 1, 2, ..., n), that is, Note that the distributions of X and X n;i do not necessarily have to be of the same family.Moreover, a random variable X is said to be discrete infinitely-divisible if the random variables X n;i only take non-negative integer values.A necessary condition for such random variable X to be well defined is P(X = 0) > 0 (to exclude the trivial case we assume P(X = 0) < 1), see Steutal and van Harn (1979).Definition 5.3 (Discrete self-decomposability) A non-negative integer-valued random variable X is said to be discrete self-decomposable if for every α ∈ [0, 1], the random variable X can be written as where the random variables α • X and X α are independent, which in terms of the pgf can be expressed as where G X α (s) is the pgf of X α .We have noted that the distribution of X α uniquely determines the distribution of X.Moreover, a discrete infinitely-divisible distribution is discrete self-decomposable.By using the definitions above, the following propositions show that the WNBL distribution is a self decomposable and infinitely-divisible distribution.Proposition 2: If X 1 , X 2 and X 3 are independent random variables such that , which is the mgf of the WNBL distribution.This completes the proof.Proposition 3: If Y i ∼ WNBL (p, β ) for i = 1, 2, ...n, are independent random variables, then Z = Y 1 +Y 2 + Y 3 . . .+Y n , and having the WNBL(n, p, β ) distribution.Proof: which gives the required proof.Note in the expression above where X B ∼ Binomial( p(β 2 −1) 1+p(β 2 −1) , n) and X NB ∼ NB(p, n(β + 1)), which shows the discrete selfdecomposability.

TEST STATISTICS WITH DATA APPLICATIONS
In this section, the credibility of the proposed model is checked via over-and under-dispersed count data sets.In this regard, for modeling over-dispersion phenomena, we have used three data sets: (i) The counts of European red mites on apple leaves, (ii) Accidents of 647 women working on H.E. shells during five weeks, (iii) The thunder storm activity at Cape Kennedy.While, for under-dispersion case the number of outbreaks of strikes in UK coal mining industries is used.All the data sets are modeled via the four probability models: WNBL, NB, Poisson (Poi) and Generalized Poisson (GP) distributions.Since NB distribution is the compounded mixture of gamma and Poisson distributions, so it is usually recommended for heterogeneity and over-dispersion, while the generalized Poisson distribution is a mixed and weighted version as well as a generalized form of Poisson distribution, therefore it is used to model over-and under-dispersed data sets.The probability functions of these models are given in the next table The distribution formula Domain For comparison purposes, we have used seven goodness-of-fit statistics.The computation of these statistics is based on the MLEs which are computed by using Mathematica 7 computational package.These statistics include Log-Likelihood (l), Akaike information criterion (AIC), Bayesian information criterion (BIC) and corrected Akaike information criterion (AICc), Kolmogrov Smirnov (KS) statistics and χ 2 statistics with p − values.The formulae of such statistics are , where m denotes the number of parameters, l( θ ) denotes the log-likelihood function evaluated at the MLEs, n denotes the number of observations in a sample, g denotes the number of classes and o i , e i and z i denote the observed frequencies, expected frequencies and cumulative distribution function of the i th class, respectively.
Vuong Test: The chi-square approximation to the distribution of the likelihood ratio test statistic is valid only for testing restrictions on the parameters of a statistical model, i.e., H 0 and H 1 are nested hypotheses.With non-nested models, we cannot make use of likelihood ratio tests for model comparison.In this case, information criteria, like AIC and BIC as well as the Vuong test for non-nested models are useful.Vuong (1989) proposed a likelihood ratio-based statistic for testing the null hypothesis that the competing models are equally close to the true data generating process against the alternative that one model is closer.Let us consider two statistical models based on the probability mass functions f A (x; ξ ) and f B (x; ζ ) posses equal number of parameters.Define the likelihood ratio statistic for the model f A (x; ξ ) against f B (x; ζ ) as , where ξn and ζn are the maximum likelihood estimators in each model based on n number of observations(see Denuit et al. 2007), f g denotes the observed frequency of the g th class and G total number of classes .If both models are strictly non-nested then under H 0 we have the test statistics Z = LR( ξn , ζn ) In order to select an appropriate model, we usually construct the following hypothesis i.e., the model A is defined to be better than model B if model A's KL distance to the truth is smaller than that of model B, or That is, the model B is defined to be better than model A if model B's KL distance to the truth is smaller than that of model A, where KL denotes the Kullback−Leibler distance measure, with corresponding critical values.The decision is as follows.i) Reject H 0 when Z > Z ε in favor of A and ii) Reject H 0 when Z < −Z ε in favor of B, where ε denotes the level of significance.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA SETS WITH THEIR FITTING
In biological research, researchers are often concerned with animals and plants counts for each of set of equal units space and time.Among these sets of counts, some counts may perhaps be well fitted by the Poisson distribution where the equi-dispersion phenomenon in the data is observed.But in discrete data sets the two other dispersion cases are also observed.The over-dispersion generally arises when the events or organisms are aggregated, clustered or clumped in time and space, while the under-dispersion is due to more regular positioning than that produced by a Poisson mechanism (see Ross and Preece 1985).So, in the coming data applications we have also used the Vuong test for selecting a model which possesses the same number of parameters at significance level 0.08, for this purpose we have compared the proposed model with the NB and GP, not with the Poisson distribution because the latter one is unsuitable for over-and under-dispersed data.
The counts of European red mites on apple leaves (Data I): Garman (1951) of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station selected 25 leaves at random from each of six McIntosh trees in a single orchard receiving the same spray treatment and the number of adult females counted on each leaf.These observations given in Table III of the Appendix and were first recorded by Bliss and Fisher (1953), and later on were mentioned by Jain and Consul (1971).The summary statistics of these observations is provided in Table IV as given in Appendix which clearly indicates the over-dispersed nature of the data.In order to fit the competing models to this data set we have used the MLE estimates.The summary of test statistics is provided in Table V which depicts that the proposed model is the most suitable choice of such data with least loss of information.Moreover, the selection of a suitable non-nested model is also checked via Vuong test.The Vuong test statistics values along with p − value for comparison between WNBL-GP and WNBL-NB are given as i) Z = −1.7548,p − value = 0.0793, and ii) Z = −1.7512,p − value = 0.0799 which clearly indicates the suitability of the proposed model by showing minimum p-value.
Accidents to 647 women working on H. E. shells during five weeks (Data II): Miss Broughton, Head Welfare Officer, and the various Welfare Supervisors were the first to provide this numerical data set to Industrial Fatigue Research Board in 1919 (see Greenwood and Woods, 1919).Later on Greenwood and Yule (1920) and Jain and Consul (1971) used it for analysis purpose.This data set is displayed at   IX and was analyzed by Castillo and Perez-Casany (1998), noting that they reported it from Kendall (1961).Later on a number of authors, like Ridout and Besbeas (2004), Chakraborty and Chakravarty (2012) and Alamatsaz and Dey (2016), studied it.Table X as given in the Appendix displays the descriptive statistics of this data set and indicates that it is under-dispersed.Further, comparison among the competing distributions is provided in Table XI which indicates that the proposed model is also an ideal model for under-dispersed data by showing not only the least Chi-Square test statistics but also minimum AIC, BIC and AICc, thus depicting that the model is the least loss of information model for under-dispersed data set too.Also, Vuong test statistics with p − values for comparison between WNBL-GP and WNBL-NB are listed as i) Z = 1.8540, p − value = 0.0673, and ii) Z = 4.4281, p − value = 0.0001 which again indicates the suitability of the proposed model.
Thunderstorm Activity at Cape Kennedy (Data IV): One of the major problem that the meteorologists usually faced is the forecasting of afternoon convective thunderstorm activity at the Cape Kennedy Florida.Usually thunderstorms are of primary concern in the design of launch vehicles, in the planning of space missions, and in launch operations at Cape Kennedy because of high winds, lightning hazard, and extreme turbulence associated with this atmospheric phenomenon.In thunderstorm activity, the occurrence of successive thunderstorm events (THEs) is often dependent process meaning that the occurrence of THEs indicates that the atmosphere is unstable and the environmental conditions are favorable for the formation of further thunderstorm activity.For more details on THEs, see Falls et al. (1971).Data set of thunderstorm activity at Cape Kennedy is displayed in Table XII at the Appendix.As for thunderstorm activities the Poisson distribution is not a proper choice, hence the proposed model is compared with the NB and GP distributions based on the expected frequencies, l, AIC, χ 2 and p − values.The expected frequencies along with the test

CONCLUSIONS
A new discrete model, named weighted negative binomial Lindley distribution, is proposed and its various properties are obtained involving generating functions, moments, recurrence relations between moments, random number generation, characterization, self-decomposability and infinite divisibility.Further, some applications of the model are studied.It is found that model is not only mathematically amenable but also recommended for many types of over-and under-dispersed count data sets.Moreover, the proposed model is also recommended for modeling the thunderstorms data and may help the scientists for proper planning of space missions and in launch operations at different stations in the presence of thunderstorms activities.

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Figure 1 -Probability Graphs for the Indicated Values of p and β of WNBL.

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Figure 2 -Hazard Function Graphs for the Indicated Values of p and β of WNBL.
Furthermore, the Vuong test statistics values along with p − value for comparison between WNBL-GP and WNBL-NB are given as i) Z = 11.4348,p − value = 0.0001, and ii) Z = 18.08284, p − value = 0.0001 which clearly indicates that the proposed model is better than the competing models.Number of outbreaks of strikes in UK coal mining industries in four successive week periods during 1948-1959 (Data III): This data set is given by Table

TABLE I Average Bias and MSE values of the MMEs from simulation of the WNBL distribution.
Also, for r = 3 and µ (2) expressed in the equation above, we obtain

TABLE II Average Bias and MSE values of the MLEs from simulation of the WNBL distribution.
Table VI and its descriptive statistics are provided in Table VII which shows an over-dispersed behavior.The earlier mentioned test statistics indicate that the proposed model is the most suitable one according to all mentioned statistics with least loss of information behavior and the results are displayed in Table VIII as given in the Appendix.
An Acad Bras Cienc (2018) 90 (3) statistics of this data set are provided in the Tables XIII, XIV and XV.Vuong test statistics with p − values are displayed in Tables XVI and XVII as given in Appendix, which clearly indicate the supremacy behavior of the proposed model over the competing distributions, except in February GP is recommended.

the observed number of days that experience x TH's at Cape Kennedy,Fla.,from WNBDL.
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the observed number of days that experience x TH's at Cape Kennedy,Fla.,from GP.
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