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Weibull Lindley Distribution

D.A. Magfira, D. Lestari and S. Nurrohmah
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (FMIPA),
Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16424, Indonesia
Abstract
In reliability systems there are known two types of systems namely series systems and parallel systems. In the series system, failure will occur if any of the possible event happens. Applications of the series system analysis also varies from inspecting the durability of manufactured
products to examining diseases in human. Therefore, several distributions have been introduced to model failure data in series system. However, these distributions cannot model data with bathtub shaped hazard function even though it is the one mostly found in real life situation.
As a result, distribution which can model lifetime data in series system with bathtub-shaped hazard function has to be developed. Weibull Lindley distribution, which was introduced by Asgharzadeh et al. (2016), is developed to solve the problem. Weibull Lindley distribution describes
lifetime data of an object that can experience failure caused by 2 possible events. It can model data with increasing, decreasing and bathtub shaped hazard function. This paper discusses the process of forming the Weibull Lindley distribution, its properties and parameter estimation
using the maximum likelihood method. In addition, the application of Weibull Lindley distribution in lifetime data of machine consists of two independent component paired in series also be discussed.

Introduction
Lifetime data tells about time needed for an event or failure to happen. For example, lifetime data describes time until death for human or time until failure for machine. The analysis of lifetime data is very important in various fields, such as biomedical science and engineering. In
the lifetime data analysis, the object will experience only one event that can lead to failure. But in real life the population is heterogeneous so it can cause more complicated problems e.g. failure can occur due to several possible unknown events [1].
In reliability systems there are known two types of systems namely series systems and parallel systems. In the series system, failure will occur if any of the possible event happens. In real life application of series system, inter-event seems to compete each other to cause failure
because if one event has occurred, the observation time is considered finish so that another event cannot occur.
Applications of the series system analysis also varies from inspecting the durability of manufactured products to examining diseases in human. Thus, several distributions have been introduced to model lifetime data in series system. Some distributions that can be used to model
lifetime data in series system are Exponential Geometric distribution, Exponential Poisson distribution, Weibull Geometric distribution, Pareto Poisson-Lindley distribution and so on [2]. However, these distributions cannot model data with bathtub-shaped hazard function even though
it is the one mostly found in real life situation. Bathtub shaped hazard function can be found in the data of machines population observed since the beginning of usage until failure or human population observed since birth until death. Therefore, distribution which can model lifetime
data in series system with bathtub-shaped hazard function has to be developed. Weibull Lindley distribution, which was introduced by Asgharzadeh et al. (2016), is developed to solve the problem.
The Weibull Lindley distribution is formed by compounding Weibull distribution and Lindley distribution. It can model increasing, decreasing, and bathtub shaped hazard function from lifetime data in series system. Weibull Lindley distribution describes lifetime data of an object that
can experience failure caused by 2 possible events. In medical field, Weibull Lindley is suitable for modelling competing risk data with two risk factors. Whereas, in engineering field, Weibull Lindley distribution can model a lifetime data of a machine which has two independent
components paired in series. This paper discusses the formation of Weibull Lindley distribution in a detailed manner, its properties, and the estimation of its parameters

Methodology

Pdf of Weibull Lindley Hazard of Weibull Lindley

distribution distribution

FIGURE 1. Pdf shapes of FIGURE 2.Hzard function

Weibull Lindley distribution shapes of Weibull Lindley
distribution

TABLE 1. Descriptive statistics for machine lifetime data

Standard
Mean Variance Minimum Maximum
deviation
2.51603 2.164 1.4750 0.148 5.44

FIGURE 3. Histogram of machine lifetime data

TABLE 3. Summary of fitted model
Kolmogorov
TABLE 2. Maximum Likelihood Estimation of machine lifetime data
Distribution Smirnov Test AIC BIC
Statistics
Weibull Distribution 𝝀෠ ෝ
𝜶 ෡
𝜷
Lindley 0.067171 204.94 211.277
Weibull Lindley 0.50117 7.6775 0.2267
Lindley 0.119717 429.378 429.378
Lindley 0.6398 - -
Weibull 0.128655 459.13 463.352
FIGURE 6. The hazard function of Weibull Lindley distribution FIGURE 5. The pdf and histogram of machine lifetime data FIGURE 4. The empirical and fitted cumulative functions Weibull - 17.147 0.3556

Result and Discussion : Data Illustration

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