Keywords and phrases: life data analysis, Weibull mixture distribution (WMD), competing risk Weibull mixture distribution (CRWMD), compound competing risk Weibull mixture distribution CCRWMD, maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) method, expectation- maximization (EM) algorithm, goodness of fit (GOF) tests, Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS), the negative log-likelihood value , the squared value for the correlation coefficient r2.
Received: December 12, 2023; Revised: February 21, 2024; Accepted: March 1, 2024; Published: March 20, 2024
How to cite this article: Emad E. Elmahdy, Reliability modelling of heterogeneous data by using different competing Weibull mixture models, Advances and Applications in Statistics 91(5) (2024), 577-596. http://dx.doi.org/10.17654/0972361724031
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