Research Article

The Proposal of Gamma Folded-Normal Distribution

Volume: 7 Number: 2 December 30, 2022
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The Proposal of Gamma Folded-Normal Distribution

Abstract

Development of new flexible distributions for modeling non-negative measurements occuring in lifetime or reliability studies is a prominent research area in Statistics. As being the most favoured positive definite form, the Gamma distribution poses a basis for such improvements. It is well known that transforming a Gamma variable with another continuous random variable (X) creates Gamma-X family of distributions. Following this principle, we here attempted to define the X variable as Folded-Normal distributed which is also positive definite so as to propose a new family of distributions. Named as Gamma Folded-Normal distribution (GFN), our proposal is a generalization of Gamma Half-Normal distribution and contains more freely estimated parameters. This study evaluates some mathematical properties of GFN distribution such as moments and illustrates the estimation procedure for unknown parameters through a simulation study. A separate simulation is also conducted to compare the performance of this new distribution with the Folded-Normal, Half-Normal and Gamma Half-Normal distributions. Besides, the practical importance of our new proposal is illustrated by analyzing a real world data set.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Statistics

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 30, 2022

Submission Date

August 19, 2022

Acceptance Date

October 11, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Volume: 7 Number: 2

APA
Altinisik, Y., Ceylan, T., & Çankaya, E. (2022). The Proposal of Gamma Folded-Normal Distribution. Sinop Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi, 7(2), 116-131. https://doi.org/10.33484/sinopfbd.1164454
AMA
1.Altinisik Y, Ceylan T, Çankaya E. The Proposal of Gamma Folded-Normal Distribution. Sinop Uni J Nat Sci. 2022;7(2):116-131. doi:10.33484/sinopfbd.1164454
Chicago
Altinisik, Yasin, Tahir Ceylan, and Emel Çankaya. 2022. “The Proposal of Gamma Folded-Normal Distribution”. Sinop Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi 7 (2): 116-31. https://doi.org/10.33484/sinopfbd.1164454.
EndNote
Altinisik Y, Ceylan T, Çankaya E (December 1, 2022) The Proposal of Gamma Folded-Normal Distribution. Sinop Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi 7 2 116–131.
IEEE
[1]Y. Altinisik, T. Ceylan, and E. Çankaya, “The Proposal of Gamma Folded-Normal Distribution”, Sinop Uni J Nat Sci, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 116–131, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.33484/sinopfbd.1164454.
ISNAD
Altinisik, Yasin - Ceylan, Tahir - Çankaya, Emel. “The Proposal of Gamma Folded-Normal Distribution”. Sinop Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi 7/2 (December 1, 2022): 116-131. https://doi.org/10.33484/sinopfbd.1164454.
JAMA
1.Altinisik Y, Ceylan T, Çankaya E. The Proposal of Gamma Folded-Normal Distribution. Sinop Uni J Nat Sci. 2022;7:116–131.
MLA
Altinisik, Yasin, et al. “The Proposal of Gamma Folded-Normal Distribution”. Sinop Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi, vol. 7, no. 2, Dec. 2022, pp. 116-31, doi:10.33484/sinopfbd.1164454.
Vancouver
1.Yasin Altinisik, Tahir Ceylan, Emel Çankaya. The Proposal of Gamma Folded-Normal Distribution. Sinop Uni J Nat Sci. 2022 Dec. 1;7(2):116-31. doi:10.33484/sinopfbd.1164454


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