The Additive Weibull family

The Additive Weibull distribution

Usage

AddW(mu.link = "log", sigma.link = "log", nu.link = "log", tau.link = "log")

Arguments

mu.link: defines the mu.link, with "log" link as the default for the mu parameter.
sigma.link: defines the sigma.link, with "log" link as the default for the sigma.
nu.link: defines the nu.link, with "log" link as the default for the nu parameter.
tau.link: defines the tau.link, with "log" link as the default for the tau parameter.

Value

Returns a gamlss.family object which can be used to fit a AddW distribution in the gamlss() function.

Details

Additive Weibull distribution with parameters mu, sigma, nu and tau has density given by

\(f(x) = (\mu\nu x^{\nu - 1} + \sigma\tau x^{\tau - 1}) \exp({-\mu x^{\nu} - \sigma x^{\tau} }),\)

for x > 0.

References

Almalki SJ, Nadarajah S (2014). “Modifications of the Weibull distribution: A review.” Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 124, 32--55. doi:10.1016/j.ress.2013.11.010 .

Xie M, Lai CD (1996). “Reliability analysis using an additive Weibull model with bathtub-shaped failure rate function.” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 52, 83--93. doi:10.1016/0951-8320(95)00149-2 .

Author

Amylkar Urrea Montoya, amylkar.urrea@udea.edu.co

Examples

# Example 1
# Generating some random values with
# known mu, sigma, nu and tau
# Will not be run this example because high number is cycles
# is needed in order to get good estimates
if (FALSE) {
y <- rAddW(n=100, mu=1.5, sigma=0.2, nu=3, tau=0.8)

# Fitting the model
require(gamlss)

mod <- gamlss(y~1, sigma.fo=~1, nu.fo=~1, tau.fo=~1, family='AddW',
              control=gamlss.control(n.cyc=5000, trace=FALSE))

# Extracting the fitted values for mu, sigma, nu and tau
# using the inverse link function
exp(coef(mod, what='mu'))
exp(coef(mod, what='sigma'))
exp(coef(mod, what='nu'))
exp(coef(mod, what='tau'))
}

# Example 2
# Generating random values under some model
# Will not be run this example because high number is cycles
# is needed in order to get good estimates
if (FALSE) {
n <- 200
x1 <- runif(n, min=0.4, max=0.6)
x2 <- runif(n, min=0.4, max=0.6)
mu <- exp(1.67 + -3 * x1)
sigma <- exp(0.69 - 2 * x2)
nu <- 3
tau <- 0.8
x <- rAddW(n=n, mu, sigma, nu, tau)

mod <- gamlss(x~x1, sigma.fo=~x2, nu.fo=~1, tau.fo=~1, family=AddW,
              control=gamlss.control(n.cyc=5000, trace=FALSE))

coef(mod, what="mu")
coef(mod, what="sigma")
exp(coef(mod, what="nu"))
exp(coef(mod, what="tau"))
}