Abstract

The eciency of the pathway idea in modeling heterogeneous real-life data is illustrated in this paper. Usually mixture models are used for modeling heterogeneous data. Here we introduce a nite mixture of two pathway Weibull models, denoted by WM_q (or _qWM or W_qM). Properties of this new model are examined and identiability is proved. Some important special cases of WM_q are given. Stress-strength reliability is found by using the Mellin convolution technique. With the help of a real heterogeneous data set, it is shown that the proposed model ts the data better than all other popular models in the literature.

Keywords and Phrases

pathway Weibull model; Fox H-function; mellin convolution; finite mixture distribution.

A.M.S. subject classification

03H05, 33C60, 60E99, 60E05.

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