Weibullization

alternative Weibullisation · alternative weibullization

1. uncountablemathematical statisticsThe operation of adding an extra parameter to the exponent of a density or distribution function.

   The Beta-Fisher-Tippett occurs as the weibullization of the beta-exponential distribution […]

   2019, Gavin E. Crooks, Field Guide to Continuous Probability Distributions, p. 142 (note capitalization)

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   All that Waloddi Weibull, a Swedish physicist, did in his pioneering reports No.'s 151 and 153 for the Engineering Academy in 1939 was to add a “small a” to the c.d.f. of the exponential distribution, and what a difference it did cause! Nowadays we refer to this operation as Weibullization.

   2003, Christian Kleiber, Samuel Kotz, Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences, John Wiley and Sons, page 174

   [The Amoroso distribution] occurs as the Weibullization of the standard gamma distribution […]

   2019, Gavin E. Crooks, Field Guide to Continuous Probability Distributions, page 72

   The generalized beta distribution arises as the Weibullization of the standard beta distribution […]

   2019, Gavin E. Crooks, Field Guide to Continuous Probability Distributions, page 117