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The Weibull-Rayleigh distribution, some properties, and applications. (English) Zbl 1403.62026

Summary: A new distribution, the Weibull-Rayleigh distribution, is introduced, and various properties of the distribution are provided. Two real data sets are used to illustrate the applicability of the Weibull-Rayleigh distribution.

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62E15 Exact distribution theory in statistics
62N05 Reliability and life testing
60E05 Probability distributions: general theory
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