%0 Journal Article
%T A Family of Lifetime Distributions
%A Vasileios Pappas
%A Konstantinos Adamidis
%A Sotirios Loukas
%J International Journal of Quality, Statistics, and Reliability
%D 2012
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2012/760687
%X A four-parameter family of Weibull distributions is introduced, as an example of a more general class created along the lines of Marshall and Olkin, 1997. Various properties of the distribution are explored and its usefulness in modelling real data is demonstrated using maximum likelihood estimates.
%U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijqsr/2012/760687/