Transmuted Weibull distribution and its applications

Abstract

In this paper we study new distribution called transmuted Weibull distribution. Some properties of this distribution are described. The usefulness of the distribution for modelling data is illustrated using real data set.

Keywords

• transmuted Weibull distribution
• properties
• maximum likelihood estimation
• application
• Akaike’s information criterion
• Bayesian information criterion
• coefficient of determination
• root mean square error