Odd Lomax Generalized Exponential Distribution: Application to Engineering and COVID-19 data

Abstract

This paper proposes the 4-parameter odd Lomax generalized exponential distribution for the study of engineering and COVID-19 data. The statistical and mathematical properties of this distribution such as a linear representation of the probability density function, survival function, hazard rate function, moments, quantile function, order statistics, entropy, mean deviation, characteristic function, and average residual life function are established. The estimates of parameters of the proposed distribution are obtained using maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), Maximum product spacings (MPS), least-square estimation (LSE), and Cramer-Von-Mises estimation (CVME) methods. A Monte-Carlo simulation experiment is carried out to study the MLEs. The applicability of the proposed distribution is evaluated using two real datasets related to engineering and COVID-19. All the computational work was performed in R programming software.