Weibullization

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Weibull +‎ -ization

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Weibullization (uncountable)

  1. (mathematical statistics) The operation of adding an extra parameter to the exponent of a density or distribution function.
    • 2003, Christian Kleiber, Samuel Kotz, Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences, John Wiley and Sons, page 174:
      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.
    • 2019, Gavin E. Crooks, Field Guide to Continuous Probability Distributions, page 72:
      [The Amoroso distribution] occurs as the Weibullization of the standard gamma distribution […]
    • 2019, Gavin E. Crooks, Field Guide to Continuous Probability Distributions, page 117:
      The generalized beta distribution arises as the Weibullization of the standard beta distribution […]
    • 2019, Gavin E. Crooks, Field Guide to Continuous Probability Distributions, p. 142 (note capitalization)
      The Beta-Fisher-Tippett occurs as the weibullization of the beta-exponential distribution […]

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