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Ciência e Natura ISSN: 1-87 cienciaenaturarevista@gmail.com Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Brasil Roozegar, Rasool; Jafari, Ali Akbar On Bivariate Exponentiated Extended Weibull Family of Distributions Ciência e Natura, vol. 8, núm. 2, mayo-agosto, 216, pp. 564-576 Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Santa Maria, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=467546242 How to cite Complete issue More information about this article Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Scientific Information System Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative

Artigo Original DOI:1.592/2179-46X19496 Ciência e Natura, Santa Maria v.8 n.2, 216, Mai.- Ago. p. 564 576 Revista do Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas - UFSM ISSN impressa: 1-87 ISSN on-line: 2179-46X On Bivariate Exponentiated Extended Weibull Family of Distributions Rasool Roozegar 1 and Ali Akbar Jafari 2 1,2 Department of Statistics, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran Abstract In this paper, we introduce a new class of bivariate distributions called the bivariate exponentiated extended Weibull distributions. The model introduced here is of Marshall- Olkin type. This new class of bivariate distributions contains several bivariate lifetime models. Some mathematical properties of the new class of distributions are studied. We provide the joint and conditional density functions, the joint cumulative distribution function and the joint survival function. Special bivariate distributions are investigated in some detail. The maximum likelihood estimators are obtained using the EM algorithm. We illustrate the usefulness of the new class by means of application to two real data sets. Keywords: Bivariate exponentiated extended Weibull distribution, Joint probability density function, EM-algorithm, Maximum likelihood estimation. Received: 15/9/215 Accepted: 11/2/216

Ciência e Natura v.8 n.2, 216, p. 564 576 565 1 Introduction The Weibull distribution has assumed a prominent position as statistical model for data from reliability, engineering and biological studies McCool, 212. The Weibull distribution is a reasonable choice due to its negatively and positively skewed density shapes. However, this distribution is not a good model for describing phenomenon with non-monotone failure rates, which can be found on data from applications in reliability studies. Thus, extended forms of the Weibull model have been sought in many applied areas. As a solution for this issue, the inclusion of additional parameters to a well-defined distribution has been indicated as a good methodology for providing more flexible new classes of distributions. The class of extended Weibull EW distributions pioneered by Gurvich et al. 1997 has achieved a prominent position in lifetime models. Its cumulative distribution function cdf is given by G x; λ, ξ = 1 e λhx;ξ, x >, λ >, 1 Hx; ξ is a non-negative monotonically increasing function which depends on the parameter vector ξ. The corresponding probability density function pdf is given by g x; λ, ξ = λh x; ξ e λhx;ξ, x >, λ >, 2 h x; ξ is the derivative of Hx; ξ. We emphasize that several distributions could be expressed in the form 1. Table 1 summarizes several of these models. Further, we refer the reader to Nadarajah and Kotz 25 and Pham and Lai 27. In recent years, many authors worked on this class of distributions such as the beta extended Weibull family by Cordeiro et al. 212, the extended Weibull power series distributions by Silva et al. 21, the complementary extended Weibull power series class of distributions by Cordeiro and Silva 214, the Marshall-Olkin extended Weibull family of distributions by Santos-Neto et al. 214 and the exponentiated extended Weibull power series class of distributions by Tahmasebi and Jafari 215. The aim of this paper is to introduce a new bivariate exponentiated extended Weibull BEEW family of distributions, whose marginals are exponentiated extended Weibull EEW distributions. It is obtained using a method similar to that used to obtain Marshall-Olkin bivariate exponential model Marshall and Olkin, 1967. The proposed BEEW class of distributions is constructed from three independent EEW distributions using a maximization process. Creating a bivariate distribution with given marginals using this technique is nothing new. The joint cdf can be expressed as a mixture of an absolutely continuous cdf and a singular cdf. The joint pdf of the BEEW distributions can take different shapes and the cdf can be expressed in a compact form. The joint cdf, the joint pdf and the joint survival function sf are in closed forms, which make it convenient to use in practice. The new class of bivariate distributions contains as special models the bivariate generalized exponential Kundu and Gupta, 29, bivariate generalized linear failure rate Sarhan et al., 211, bivariate generalized Gompertz El-Sherpieny et al., 21, bivariate exponentiated generalized Weibull-Gompertz El-Bassioun et al., 215, bivariate exponentiated modified Weibull extension El-Gohary and El-Morshedy, 215 distributions. This class defines at least 46 2 2 bivariate sub-models as special cases. The usual maximum likelihood estimators can be obtained by solving non-linear equations in at least five unknowns directly, which is not a trivial issue. To avoid difficult computation we treat this problem as a missing value problem and use the EM algorithm, which can be implemented more conveniently than the direct maximization process. Another advantage of the EM algorithm is that it can be used to obtain the observed Fisher information matrix, which is helpful for constructing the asymptotic confidence intervals for the parameters. Alternatively, it is possible to obtain approximate maximum likelihood estimators by estimating the marginals first and then estimating the dependence parameter through a copula function, as suggested by Joe, 1997, Chapter 1, which has the same rate of convergence as the maximum likelihood estimators. This is computationally less involved compared to the MLE calculations. This approach is not pursued here. Although in this paper we mainly discuss the BEEW, many of our results can be easily extended to the multivariate case. The main reasons for introducing this new class of bivariate distributions are: i This class of distributions is an important model that can be used in a variety of problems in modeling bivariate lifetime data. ii It provides a reasonable parametric fit to skewed bivariate data that cannot be properly fitted by other distributions. iii The joint cdf and joint pdf should preferably have a closed form representation; at least numerical evaluation should be possible. v This class contains several special bivariate models because of the general class of Weibull distributions and the fact that the current generalization provides means of its bivariate continuous extension to still more complex situations; therefore it can be applied in modeling bivariate lifetime data. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. We define the EEW and the BEEW class of distributions in Section 2. Different properties of this family are discussed in this section. The special cases of the BEEW model are considered in Section. The EM algorithm

566 Roozegar 1and Jafari et al: On Bivariate Exponentiated Extended Weibull... Table 1: Special cases of EW distributions and corresponding Hx; ξ function Table 1: Special cases of EW distributions and corresponding H x; function Distribution Support H x; ξ λ ξ Reference Exponential x x λ Johnson et al. 1995 Pareto x = k logx/k λ k Johnson et al. 1995 Gompertz x c 1 [exp cx 1] λ c Gompertz 1825 Weibull x x γ λ γ Fréchet 1927 Fréchet x x γ λ γ Fréchet 1927 Lomax x log1 + x λ Lomax 1954 Weibull Kies < µ < x < σ x µ b 1 /σ x b 2 λ µ, σ, b 1, b 2 Kies 1958 Log-logistic x log1 + x c λ c Fisk 1961 Linear failure rate x ax + bx 2 /2 1 a, b Barlow 1968 Log-Weibull < x < exp[x µ/σ] 1 µ, σ White 1969 Exponential power x expcx a 1 1 a, c Smith and Bain 1975 Burr XII x log1 + x c λ c Rodriguez 1977 Rayleigh x x 2 λ Rayleigh 188 Phani < µ < x < σ [x µ/σ x] b λ µ, σ, b Phani 1987 Additive Weibull x x/β 1 α 1 +x/β 2 α 2 1 α 1, α 2, β 1, β 2 Xie and Lai 1995 Chen x expx b 1 λ b Chen 2 Pham x a x β 1 1 a, β Pham 22 Weibull extension x c [ expcx b 1 ] λ γ, b, c Xie et al. 22 Modified Weibull x x γ expcx λ γ, c Lai et al. 2 Traditional Wibull x x d expcx a 1 λ a, b, c Nadarajah and Kotz 25 Generalized Weibull power x [1 +x/a b ] c 1 1 a, b, c Nikulin and Haghighi 26 Flexible Weibull extension x exp α 1 x β 1 /x 1 α 1, β 1 Bebbington et al. 27 Almalki Additive Weibull x ax θ + bx γ e cx 1 a, b, c, θ, γ Almalki and Yuan 21 to compute the MLEs of the unknown parameters is provided in Section 4. The analysis of two real data sets are provided in Section 5. Finally, we conclude the paper in Section 6. 2 The BEEW model In this section, we introduce the BEEW distributions using a method similar to that which was used by Marshall and Olkin 1967 to define the Marshall Olkin bivariate exponential MOBE distribution. First, consider the univariate EEW class of distributions with cdf given by F EEW x; α, λ, ξ = 1 e λhx;ξ α, x >, α >, λ >. The corresponding pdf is f EEW x; α, λ, ξ = αλ h x; ξ e λhx;ξ 1 e λhx;ξ α 1. 4 From now on a EEW class of distributions with the shape parameter α, the scale parameter λ and parameter vector ξ will be denoted by EEWα, λ, ξ. Note that many well-known models could be expressed in the form, such as exponentiated Weibull Mudholkar and Srivastava, 199, generalized exponential Gupta and Kundu, 1999, Weibull extension Chen, 2, generalized Rayleigh Surles and Padgett, 21; Kundu and eralized Rayleigh Surles and Padgett, 21; Kundu and Raqab, 25, modified Weibull extension Xie et al., 22, generalized modified Weibull Carrasco et al., 28 generalized linear failure rate Sarhan and Kundu, 29, generalized Gompertz El-Gohary et al., 21, and exponentiated modified Weibull extension Sarhan and Apaloo, 21 distributions. When α is a positive integer, the EEW model can be interpreted as the lifetime distribution of a parallel system consisting of α independent and identical units whose lifetime follows the EEW distributions. From now on unless otherwise mentioned, it is assumed that α 1 > ; α 2 > ; α > and λ >. Suppose U 1 EEWα 1, λ, ξ, U 2 EEWα 2, λ, ξ and U EEWα, λ, ξ and they are mutually independent. Here means follows or has the distribution. Now define X 1 = maxu 1, U } and X 2 = maxu 2, U }. Then, we say that the bivariate vector X 1, X 2 has a bivariate exponentiated extended Weibull distribution with the shape parameters α 1, α 2 and α, the scale parameter λ and parameter vector ξ. We will denote it by BEEWα 1, α 2, α, λ, ξ. Before providing the joint cdf or pdf, we first mention how it may occur in practice. According to Kundu and Gupta 29, suppose a system has two components and it is assumed that each component has been maintained independently and also there is an overall maintenance. Due to component maintenance, suppose the lifetime of the individual component is increased by U amount and because of the

Ciência e Natura v.8 n.2, 216, p. 564 576 567 maintenance, suppose the lifetime of the individual component is increased by U i amount and because of the overall maintenance, the lifetime of each component is increased by U amount. Therefore, the increased lifetimes of the two component are X 1 = maxu 1, U } and X 2 = maxu 2, U }, respectively. We now study the joint cdf of the bivariate random vector X 1, X 2 in the following theorem. Theorem 2.1. If X 1, X 2 BEEWα 1, α 2, α, λ, ξ, then the joint cdf of X 1, X 2 for x 1 >, x 2 >, is F BEEW x 1, x 2 = 1 e λhx α 1 1;ξ 1 e λhx α 2 2;ξ z = minx 1, x 2 }. 1 e λhz;ξ α, 5 Proof. Since the joint cdf of the random variables X 1 and X 2 is defined as F BEEW x 1, x 2 = P X 1 x 1, X 2 x 2 = P max U 1, U } x 1, max U 2, U } x 2 = PU 1 x 1, U 2 x 2, U minx 1, x 2. As the random variables U i, i = 1, 2, are mutually independent, we directly obtain F BEEW x 1, x 2 ; α 1, α 2, α, λ, ξ =F EEW x 1 ; α 1, λ, ξ F EEW x 2 ; α 2, λ, ξf EEW z; α, λ, ξ. 6 Substituting from into 6, we obtain 5, which completes the proof of the theorem. Corollary 1. The joint cdf the BEEWα 1, α 2, α, λ, ξ can also written as b1 if x F BEEW x 1, x 2 = 1 x 2 7 b 2 if x 1 > x 2 c 1 if x 1 < x 2 = c 2 if x 2 < x 1 c if x 1 = x 2 = x, b 1 = 1 e λhx α 1 +α 1;ξ 1 e λhx α 2;ξ 2, b 2 = 1 e λhx α 1 1;ξ 1 e λhx α 2 +α 2;ξ, c 1 = F EEW x 1 ; α 1 + α, λ, ξ F EEW x 2 ; α 2, λ, ξ, c 2 = F EEW x 1 ; α 1, λ, ξ F EEW x 2 ; α 2 + α, λ, ξ, c = F EEW x; α 1 + α 2 + α, λ, ξ. The following theorem gives the joint pdf of the random variables X 1 and X 2 which is the joint pdf of BEEWα 1, α 2, α, λ, ξ. Theorem 2.2. If X 1, X 2 BEEWα 1, α 2, α, λ, ξ then the joint pdf of X 1, X 2 for x 1 >, x 2 >, is f 1 x 1, x 2 if < x 1 < x 2 f BEEW x 1, x 2 = f 2 x 1, x 2 if < x 2 < x 1 f x if < x 1 = x 2 = x, 8 f 1 x 1, x 2 = f EEW x 1 ; α 1 + α, λ, ξ f EEW x 2 ; α 2, λ, ξ = α 1 + α α 2 λ 2 h x 1 ; ξ h x 2 ; ξ 1 e λhx α 1 +α 1 1;ξ 1 e λhx α 2 1 2;ξ e λhx 1 ;ξ λhx 2 ;ξ 9 f 2 x 1, x 2 =f EEW x 1 ; α 1, λ, ξ f EEW x 2 ; α 2 + α, λ, ξ = α 2 + α α 1 λ 2 h x 1 ; ξ h x 2 ; ξ 1 e λhx α 1 1 1;ξ 1 e λhx α 2 +α 1 2;ξ e λhx 1 ;ξ λhx 2 ;ξ 1 α f x = f α 1 + α 2 + α EEW x; α 1 +α 2 + α, λ, ξ =α λ h x; ξ 1 e λhx;ξ α 1 +α 2 +α 1 e λhx;ξ. 11 Proof. First assume that x 1 < x 2. Then, the expression for f 1 x 1, x 2 can be obtained simply by differentiating the joint cdf F BEEW x 1, x 2 given in 7 with respect to x 1 and x 2. Similarly, we find the expression of f 2 x 1, x 2 when x 2 < x 1. But f x cannot be derived in the same way. Using the facts that x2 x1 + x2 = α 2 and x1 = α 1 f 1 x 1, x 2 dx 1 dx 2 f 2 x 1, x 2 dx 2 dx 1 + f x dx = 1, f 1 x 1, x 2 dx 1 dx 2 λhx; ξ 1 e λhx;ξ α 1 +α 2 +α 1 e λhx;ξ dx, f 2 x 1, x 2 dx 2 dx 1 λhx; ξ 1 e λhx;ξ α 1 +α 2 +α 1 e λhx;ξ dx. Note that f x dx = α λhx; ξ 1 e λhx;ξ α 1 +α 2 +α 1 e λhx;ξ dx

568 Roozegar 1and Jafari et al: On Bivariate Exponentiated Extended Weibull... = α α 1 + α 2 + α. Thus, the result follows. The following theorem gives the marginal pdf s of X 1 and X 2. Theorem 2.. The marginal distributions of X 1 and X 2 are EEWα 1 + α, λ, ξ and EEWα 2 +α, λ, ξ, respectively. Proof. The marginal cdf for X i is F Xi x i =P X i x i =P max U i, U } x i =PU i x i, U x i. Since the random variables U i, i = 1, 2 are mutually independent, we obtain F Xi x i = P U i x i PU x i = F EEW x i ; α i, λ, ξ F EEW x i ; α, λ, ξ = F EEW x i ; α i + α, λ, ξ. 12 From 12, we can derive the pdf of X i by differentiation. The BEEW model has both an absolute continuous part and a singular part, similar to Marshall and Olkin s bivariate exponential model. The joint cdf of X 1 and X 2 has a singular part along the line x 1 = x 2, with α weight α 1 +α 2 +α, and has an absolutely continuous part α on < x 1 = x 2 < with weight 1 +α 2 α 1 +α 2 +α. Interestingly, the BEEW model can be obtained by using the Marshall-Olkin MO copula with the marginals as the EEW distributions. To every bivariate cdf F X1,X 2 with continuous marginals F X1 and F X2 there corresponds a unique bivariate cdf with uniform margins C : [, 1] 2 [, 1] called a copula, such that F X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 = CF X1 x 1, F X2 x 2 } holds for all x 1, x 2 R 2 Nelson, 1999. The MO copula is } C θ1,θ 2 u 1, u 2 = u 1 θ 1 1 u 1 θ 2 2 min u θ 1 1, uθ 2 2, for < θ 1 < 1 and < θ 2 < 1. Using u i = F Xi x i X i is EEWα i + α, λ, ξ and θ i = α α i +α, i = 1, 2,, gives the same joint cdf F X1,X 2 as 7. The following result will provide explicitly the absolute continuous part and the singular part of the BEEW cdf. Theorem 2.4. If X 1, X 2 BEEWα 1, α 2, α, λ, ξ, then F X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 = α 1 + α 2 F a x α 1 + α 2 + α 1, x 2 α + F s x α 1 + α 2 + α 1, x 2, for x = min x 1, x 2 }, and F s x 1, x 2 = 1 e λhx;ξ α 1 +α 2 +α, F a x 1, x 2 = α 1 + α 2 + α 1 e λhx α 1 1;ξ α 1 + α 2 1 e λhx α 2 2;ξ 1 e λhx;ξ α α 1 e λhx;ξ α 1 +α 2 +α, α 1 + α 2 here F s.,. and F a.,. are the singular and the absolute continuous parts, respectively. Proof. To find F a x 1, x 2 from F X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 = af a x 1, x 2 + 1 a F s x 1, x 2, a 1, we compute 2 F X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 =af a x x 1 x 1, x 2 2 f1 x = 1, x 2 if x 1 < x 2 f 2 x 1, x 2 if x 1 > x 2, from which a may be obtained as and a = x2 x1 + f 1 x 1, x 2 dx 1 dx 2 F a x 1, x 2 = f 2 x 1, x 2 dx 2 dx 1 = α 1 + α 2 α 1 + α 2 + α, x1 x2 f a s, t ds dt. Once a and F a.,. are determined, F s.,. can be obtained by subtraction. Corollary 2. The joint pdf of X 1 and X 2 can be written as follows for x = min x 1, x 2 }; and f X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 = α 1 + α 2 f a x α 1 + α 2 + α 1, x 2 α + f s x, α 1 + α 2 + α f a x 1, x 2 = α 1 + α 2 + α α 1 + α 2 d1 if x 1 < x 2, d 2 if x 1 > x 2, d 1 = f EEW x 1 ; α 1 + α, λ, ξ f EEW x 2 ; α 2, λ, ξ, d 2 = f EEW x 1 ; α 1, λ, ξ f EEW x 2 ; α 2 + α, λ, ξ, f s x = f EEW x; α 1 + α 2 + α, λ, ξ. Clearly, here f a x 1, x 2 and f s x are the absolute continuous part and singular part, respectively.

Ciência e Natura v.8 n.2, 216, p. 564 576 569 Having obtained the marginal pdf of X 1 and X 2, we can now derive the pdf s as presented in the following theorem. Theorem 2.5. The conditional pdf of X i given X j = x j, denoted by f Xi X j xi x j,i j = 1, 2, is given by f Xi X xi j x j = f 1 X i X j xi x j f 2 X i X j xi x j f X i X j xi x j if if < x i < x j < x j < x i if x i = x j >, f 1 α i + α α j λh x i ; ξ xi x X i X j j = α 2 + α 1 e λhx α j;ξ 1 e λhx α i +α 1 i;ξ e λhx i ;ξ, f 2 xi x X i X j j = αi λ h x i ; ξ 1 e λhx α i 1 i;ξ e λhx i;ξ f X i X j xi x j = α α j + α 1 e λhx i;ξ α i. 1 Proof. The proof follows readily upon substituting the joint pdf of X 1, X 2 given in Theorem 2.2 and the marginal pdf of X j, given in Theorem 2., using the following relation f Xi,X j x i, x j f Xi X xi j x j =, i = 1, 2. 14 f Xj x j Proposition 1. Since the joint sf and the joint cdf have the following relation S X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 = 1 F X1 x 1 F X2 x 2 + F X1,X 2 x 1, x 2, 15 therefore, the joint sf of X 1 and X 2 also can be expressed in a compact form. Proposition 2. Basu 1971 defined the bivariate failure rate function h X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 for the random vector X 1, X 2 as the following relation h X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 = f X 1,X 2 x 1, x 2 S X1,X 2 x 1, x 2. 16 We can obtained the bivariate failure rate function h X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 for the random vector X 1, X 2 by substituting from 8 and 15 in 16. Lemma 1. The cdf of Υ = maxx 1, X 2 } is given as F Υ y = 1 e λhy;ξ α 1 +α 2 +α. 17 Proof. Since F Υ y = P Υ y = P maxx 1, X 2 } y = P X 1 y, X 2 y = P maxu 1, U } y, maxu 2, U } y = P U 1 y, U 2 y, U y, the random variables U i i = 1, 2, are mutually independent, we directly obtain the result. Lemma 2. The cdf of T = minx 1, X 2 } is given as F T t = 1 e λht;ξ α 1 +α + 1 e λht;ξ α 2 +α 1 e λht;ξ α 1 +α 2 +α. Proof. It is easy to prove that by using Equations 15 and 17. Special cases In this Section, we consider some special cases of the BEEW distributions..1 Bivariate generalized exponential distribution If H x; ξ = x, then the joint cdf 7 becomes b1 if x F X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 = 1 x 2 b 2 if x 1 > x 2, b 1 = 1 e λx α1 +α α2, 1 1 e 2 λx b 2 = 1 e λx α1 1 1 e 2 λx α2 +α, which is the joint cdf of bivariate generalized exponential BGE distribution introduced by Kundu and Gupta 29. By Theorem 12, the marginal distributions of X 1 and X 2 are GEα 1 + α, λ and GE α 2 + α, λ, respectively..2 Bivariate generalized linear failure rate distribution If H x; ξ = βx + γ 2 x2 and λ = 1, then the joint cdf 7 becomes b1 if x F X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 = 1 x 2 b 2 if x 1 > x 2, b 1 = 1 e βx 1 γ 2 x2 1 α1 +α 1 e βx 2 γ 2 x2 2 α2,

57 Roozegar 1and Jafari et al: On Bivariate Exponentiated Extended Weibull... b 2 = 1 e βx 1 γ α1 2 x2 1 1 e βx 2 γ α2 +α, 2 2 x2 which is the joint cdf of bivariate generalized linear failure rate BGLFR distribution introduced by Sarhan et al. 211. By Theorem 12, the marginal distributions of X 1 and X 2 are GLFRα 1 + α, β, γ and GLFRα 2 + α, β, γ, respectively.. Bivariate exponentiated Weibull distribution If H x; ξ =x β, then the joint cdf 7 becomes b1 if x F X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 = 1 x 2 b 2 if x 1 >x 2, b 1 = b 2 = α1 +α α2 1 e λxβ 1 1 e λxβ 2, α1 α2 +α 1 e λxβ 1 1 e λxβ 2. We call this, bivariate exponentiated Weibull BEW distribution. By Theorem 12, the marginal distributions of X 1 and X 2 are EWα 1 + α, λ, β and EW α 2 + α, λ, β, respectively..4 Bivariate generalized Gompertz distribution If H x; ξ = β 1 e βx 1, then the joint cdf 7 becomes F X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 = b1 if x 1 x 2 b 2 if x 1 > x 2, b 1 = 1 e λβ 1 e βx α 1 1 1 +α 1 e λβ 1 e βx α 2 1 2, b 2 = 1 e λβ 1 e βx α 1 1 1 1 e λβ 1 e βx α 2 1 2 +α, which is the joint cdf of bivariate generalized Gompertz BGG distribution introduced by El-Sherpieny et al. 21. By Theorem 12, the marginal distributions of X 1 and X 2 are GGα 1 + α, λ, β and GG α 2 + α, λ, β, respectively. n.5 Bivariate exponentiated generalized Weibu = I, n 1 = I 1, n 2 = I 2, n = n + n 1 + n 2..5 Bivariate exponentiated -Weibull- Gompertz Gompertz distribution distribution Therefore, the log-likelihood function can be written as If H x; ξ = x β e γxδ 1, then the joint cdf 7 becomes b1 if x F X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 = 1 x 2 b 2 if x 1 > x 2, b 1 = b 2 = α1 +α α2 1 e λxβ 1 eγxδ 1 1 1 e λxβ 2 eγxδ 2 1, α1 α2 +α 1 e λxβ 1 eγxδ 1 1 1 e λxβ 2 eγxδ 2 1, which is the joint cdf of bivariate exponentiated generalized Weibull-Gompertz BEGWG distribution introduced by El-Bassioun et al. 215. By Theorem 12, the marginal distributions of X 1 and X 2 are EGWGα 1 + α, λ, β, γ, δ and EGWG α 2 + α, λ, β, γ, δ, respectively..6 Bivariate exponentiated modified Weibull extension distribution If H x; ξ = βe x/βγ 1, then the joint cdf 7 becomes b1 if x F X1,X 2 x 1, x 2 = 1 x 2 b 2 if x 1 > x 2, b 1 = 1 e λβex 1 /βγ α 1 1 +α 1 e λβex 2 /βγ α 1 2, b 2 = 1 e λβex 1 /βγ α 1 1 1 e λβex 2 /βγ α 1 2 +α, which is the joint cdf of bivariate exponentiated modified Weibull extension BEMWE distribution introduced by El-Gohary and El-Morshedy 215. By Theorem 12, the marginal distributions of X 1 and X 2 are EMWEα 1 + α, λ, β, γ and EMWE α 2 + α, λ, β, γ, respectively. 4 Maximum likelihood estimation In this section, we first study the maximum likelihood estimations MLE s of the parameters. Then, we propose an Expectation-Maximization EM algorithm to estimate the parameters. Let x 11, x 12,..., x 1n, x 2n be an observed sample with size n from BEEW distribution with parameters Θ = α 1, α 2, α, λ, ζ. Also, consider and I = i : x 1i = x 2i = x i }, I 1 = i : x 1i < x 2i }, I 2 = i : x 1i > x 2i }, i = 1,..., n, l Θ = i I 1 log f 1 x 1i, x 2i + i I 2 log f 2 x 1i, x 2i + i I log f x i w t m p l t t T a n U s i d t Λ t a a g i t l t

Ciência e Natura v.8 n.2, 216, p. 564 576 571 = 2n 1 + 2n 2 + n log λ + n 1 log α 2 + n 2 log α 1 + n log α + n 1 log α 1 + α + n 2 log α 2 + α + i I 1 I 2 log h x 1i ; ξ + log h x 2i ; ξ + log h x i ; ξ i I 1 I 2 i I + α 1 + α 1 log 1 e λhx 1i;ξ i I 1 + log 1 e λhx 2i;ξ i I 2 + α 2 1 log 1 e λhx 2i;ξ i I 1 + α 1 1 log 1 e λhx 1i;ξ i I 2 + α 1 + α 2 + α 1 1 e λhx i;ξ + λ x i + i I i I log i I 1 I 2 x 1i + i I 1 I 2 x 2i, 18 f 1, f 2 and f are given in 9, 1 and 11, respectively. We can obtain the MLE s of the parameters by maximizing l Θ in 18 with respect to the unknown parameters. This is clearly a k + 4-dimensional problem. However, no explicit expressions are available for the MLE s. We need to solve k + 4 non-linear equations simultaneously, which may not be very simple. Therefore, we present an expectation-maximization EM algorithm to find the MLE s of parameters. It may be noted that if instead of X 1, X 2, we observe U 1, U 2, and U, the MLE s of the parameters can be obtained by solving a two-dimensional optimization process, which is clearly much more convenient than solving a k + 4- dimensional optimization process. For this reason, we treat this problem as a missing value problem. Assumed that for the bivariate random vector X 1, X 2, there is an associated random vectors U1 > U Λ 1 = U2 > U and Λ 1 U 1 < U 2 = 1 U 2 < U. Note that if X 1 = X 2, then Λ 1 = Λ 2 =. But if X 1 < X 2 or X 1 > X 2, then Λ 1, Λ 2 is missing. If X 1, X 2 I 1 then the possible values of Λ 1, Λ 2 are 1, or 1, 1, and If X 1, X 2 I 2 then the possible values of Λ 1, Λ 2 are, 1 or 1, 1 with non-zero probabilities. Now, we are in a position to provide the EM algorithm. In the E-step of the EM-algorithm, we treat it as complete observation when they belong to I. If the observation belong to I 1, we form the pseudo loglikelihood function by fractioning x 1, x 2 to two partially complete pseudo observations of the form x 1, x 2, u 1 Θ and x 1, x 2, u 2 Θ, u 1 Θ and u 2 Θ are the conditional probabilities that Λ 1, Λ 2 takes values 1, and 1, 1, respectively. It is clear that u 1 Θ = α 1 α 1 + α, u 2 Θ = α α 1 + α. Similarly, If the observation belong to I 2, we form the pseudo log-likelihood function of the from y 1, y 2, v 1 Θ and x 1, x 2, v 2 Θ, v 1 Θ and v 2 Θ are the conditional probabilities that Λ 1, Λ 2 takes values, 1 and 1, 1, respectively. Therefore, v 1 Θ = α 2 α 2 + α, v 2 Θ = α α 2 + α. For brevity, we write u 1 Θ, u 2 Θ, v 1 Θ, v 2 Θ as u 1, u 2, v 1, v 2, respectively. E-step: Consider b i = EN y 1i, y 2i, Θ. The log- likelihood function without the additive constant can be written as follows: l pseudo Θ = n + 2n 1 + 2n 2 log λ + u 1 n 1 + n 2 log α 1 + n 1 + v 1 n 2 log α 2 + n + u 2 n 1 + v 2 n 2 log α + log h x i ; ξ + log h x 1i ; ξ i I i I 1 I 2 + log h x 2i ; ξ i I 1 I 2 +α 1 + α 2 + α 1 log 1 e λhx i;ξ i I + α 1 + α 1 log 1 e λhx 1i;ξ i I 1 + α 2 + α 1 log 1 e λhx 2i;ξ i I 2 + α 2 1 log 1 e λhx 2i;ξ i I 1 + α 1 1 log 1 e λhx 1i;ξ i I 2 λ H x i ; ξ + H x 1i ; ξ i I i I 1 I 2 + H x 2i ; ξ i I 1 I 2 M-step: At this step, l pseudo Θ is maximized with respect to α 1, α 2, α, λ and ξ. For fixed λ and ξ, the maximization occurs at u ˆα 1 λ, ξ = 1 n 1 + n 2 i I Wx i + i I1 I 2 Wx 1i, 19 n ˆα 2 λ = 1 + v 1 n 2 i I Wx i + i I1 I 2 Wx 2i, 2

572 Roozegar 1and Jafari et al: On Bivariate Exponentiated Extended Weibull... n ˆα λ = + u 2 n 1 + v 2 n 2 i I Wx i + i I1 Wx 1i + i I2 Wx 2i, 21 Wx =log 1 e λhx;ξ. For fixed α 1, α 2, α and ξ, l pseudo Θ is maximized with respect to λ as a solution of the following equation: n + 2n 1 + 2n 2 gλ = λ, 22 H x g λ = α 1 + α 2 + α 1 i ; ξ e λhxi;ξ i I 1 e λhx i;ξ Hx α 1 + α 1 1i; ξe λhx1i;ξ i I 1 1 e λhx 1i;ξ Hx α 2 + α 1 2i; ξe λhx2i;ξ i I 2 1 e λhx 2i;ξ Hx α 2 1 2i; ξe λhx2i;ξ i I 1 1 e λhx 2i;ξ Hx α 1 1 1i; ξe λhx1i;ξ i I 2 1 e λhx 1i;ξ + H x i ; ξ + H x 1i ; ξ i I i I 1 I 2 + i I 1 I 2 H x 2i ; ξ. Finally, for fixed α 1, α 2, α and λ, l pseudo Θ is maximized with respect to ξ as a solution of the following equation: ξ l pseudo Θ =. 2 The following steps can be used to compute the MLE s of the parameters via the EM algorithm: Step 1: Take some initial value of Θ, say Θ =α 1, α 2, α, λ, ξ. Step 2: Compute u 1, u 2, v 1, and v 2. Step : Find ˆλ by solving the equation 22, say ˆλ 1. Step 4: Find ˆξ by solving the equation 2, say ˆξ 1. Step 5: Compute ˆα 1 i = ˆα i ˆλ 1, ˆξ 1, i = 1, 2, from 19-21. Step 6: Replace Θ by ˆΘ 1 =ˆα 1 1, ˆα1 2, ˆα1, ˆλ 1, ˆξ 1, go back to step 1 and continue the process until convergence take place. 5 Two real examples We consider BEEW distributions for fitting these two data sets. But, this family of distributions is a large class of distributions. Here, we consider six sub-models of BEEW distributions: BGE, BGLFR, BEW, BGG, BEGWG, and BEMWE. Some of them are suggested in literature. Using the proposed EM algorithm, these models are fitted to the bivariate data set, and the MLE s and their corresponding log-likelihood values are calculated. The standard errors s.e. based on the observed information matrix are obtained. For each fitted model, the Akaike Information Criterion AIC, the corrected Akaike information criterion AICC and the Bayesian information criterion BIC are calculated. We also obtain the Kolmogorov-Smirnov K- S distances between the fitted distribution, the empirical distribution function, and the corresponding p-values in parenthesis for X 1, X 2 and maxx 1, X 2. For more information about this criteria of model selection, we refer the reader to Burnham and Anderson 1998 and Sullivan and Joyce 25 Finally, we make use the likelihood ratio test LRT and the corresponding p-values for testing the BGE against other models. Example 1. The data set is given from Meintanis 27 and is obtained from the group stage of the UEFA Champion s League for the years 24-5 and 25-26. In addition, Kundu and Gupta 29 and Sarhan et al. 211 analyzed this data. The data represent the football soccer data at least one goal scored by the home team and at least one goal scored directly from a kick goal like penalty kick, foul kick or any other direct kick by any team have been considered. Here X 1 represents the time in minutes of the first kick goal scored by any team and X 2 represents the first goal of any type scored by the home team. In Table 2 we provide the MLEs of the unknown parameters of six sub models of BEEW distributions. We have also included the AIC, AICC, and BIC values for model selection purposes. From this data, we find the values of the all unknown parameters with its standard errors and the log-likelihood for the six models. Using the EM algorithm we obtain the MLEs of all parameters. By substituting the MLE of unknown parameters, we get the estimation of the variance covariance matrix. The likelihood ratio test statistic and the associated p values for marginal distributions showed that all marginal distributions provide significant fit to this data. It is clear that all six models are appropriate for this data set but among these all six models, the BEW and BGG models are preferable, on the basis of both AIC, AICC, and BIC values. The AIC, AICC, and BIC values for BEW BGG models are 59.61 59.71, 595.297 595.646, and 61.416 61.765, respectively. Example 2. The data set was first published in Washington Post and is available in Csörgö and Welsh 1989. It is represent the American Football League for the matches on three consecutive weekends in 1986. Here, X 1 represents the game time to the first points scored by kicking the ball between

[ ] Ciência e Natura v.8 n.2, 216, p. 564 576 57 Table 2: The MLE s, log-likelihood, AIC, AICC, BIC, K-S, and LRT statistics for six sub-models of BEEW distribution of first data set. Distribution Statistic BGE BGLFR BEW BGG BEWG BEMWE ˆα 1 1.4452.492.2179.6596.2474.1574 s.e..416.81.666.2559.1185.2276 ˆα 2.4681.1661.77.266.896.57 s.e..1879.55.2219.19.498.8 ˆα 1.174.411.188.5821.222.1419 s.e..2866.1.446.1964.116.29 ˆλ.9 1.914e-4.98.1622.246 s.e..56 1.8e-5.61.698.526 ˆβ 1.99e-4.716.4.4168 85.9181 s.e. 1.27e-4.2811.112.9648 4.119 ˆγ 7.971e-4 2.624e-5 4.554 s.e. 1.497e-4 7.4e-5 2.9 ˆδ 2.4645 s.e..5969 logl 296.91 29.76 291.681 291.855 291.12 29.981 AIC 61.81 596.752 59.61 59.71 596.26 59.962 AICC 6.51 598.688 595.297 595.646 6.125 596.762 BIC 68.245 64.87 61.416 61.765 67.54 6.628 K-S X 1.14.782.962.142.114.1182 p-value.824.9925.8829.8157.7218.6789 K-S X 2.11.968.1167.124.1196.1187 p-value.8527.8786.699.6161.6644.678 K-S maxx 1, X 2.141.114.942.984.1272.166 p-value.444.7574.8978.8661.5865.494 LRT 7.5 1.44 1.92 11.58 11.84 p-value.79.12.15.91.26 goal posts, and represents the game time to the first points scored by moving the ball into the end zone. Kundu and Gupta 21 Jamalizadeh and Kundu 21, and Balakrishna and Shiji 214 analyzed this data. We divided all the data by 1. Table displays the MLE s of the parameters with corresponding standard errors in parentheses for the bivariate distributions which are obtained by the EM algorithm given in Section 4. To test the goodness-of algorithm given in Section 4. To test the goodness-of fit of the marginal distributions, we calculated the Kolmogorov - Smirnov K-S statistic with its respective p-value. From K-S in this table, it can be concluded that all marginal distributions of six models are appropriate for this data set. Since the values of the AIC 65.4, BIC 64.258, and AICC 58.89 are smaller for the BGE distribution compared with those values of the other models, this bivariate distribution seems to be a very competitive model for these data.

574 Roozegar 1and Jafari et al: On Bivariate Exponentiated Extended Weibull... Table : The MLE s, log-likelihood, AIC, AICC, BIC, K-S, and LRT statistics for six sub-models of BEEW distribution of second data set. Distribution Statistic BGE BGLFR BEW BGG BEWG BEMWE ˆα 1.921.921.167.921.151.174 s.e..65.667.151.65.257.155 ˆα 2.5722.5722.848.5722.91.852 s.e..1614.1824.628.1614 1.472.629 ˆα 1.1519 1.1519 1.711 1.1519 1.8788 1.7195 s.e..288.2945 1.218.288 2.9542 1.228 ˆλ 9.6187 8.5587 9.6187.462.614 s.e. 1.5569 1.969 1.559 2.8867 9.275 ˆβ 9.6187.8117 2.1e-12.5548 211.651 s.e. 2.7455.2828.455.28 88.5725 ˆγ 2.51e-4 1.255.888 s.e. 1.297e-4.8749.2814 ˆδ.1462 s.e. 1.957 logl 6.67 6.67 6.857 6.67 6.859 6.857 AIC -65.4-6.4-6.714-6.4-59.717-61.714 AICC -64.258-61.67-62.48-61.67-56.42-59.14 BIC -58.89-54.652-55.26-54.651-47.55-51.288 K-S X 1.188.188.1678.188.1679.168 p-value.1282.1282.1872.1282.1869.1866 K-S X 2.141.1411.1289.141.129.1291 p-value.48.48.4499.48.449.4484 K-S maxx 1, X 2.15.15.1197.15.1198.1198 p-value.929.929.548.929.5428.5422 LRT..74..78.74 p-value 1..548 1..9447.8294 6 Conclusions In this paper we have introduced the new bivariate exponentiated extended Weibull distribution whose marginal are exponentiated extended Weibull distributions. It contains a number of known special submodels at least 46 bivariate distributions such as bivariate generalized exponential, bivariate generalized linear failure rate, bivariate exponentiated Weibull, bivariate generalized Gompertz, and bivariate exponentiated modified Weibull extension distributions, among others. We think the formulas derived are manageable by using modern computer resources with analytic and numerical capabilities. The proposed bivariate model has a singular distribution, and it can be used quite effectively instead of the Marshall-Olkin bivariate exponential model or the bivariate generalized exponential model when there of the Marshall-Olkin bivariate exponential model or the bivariate generalized exponential model when there are ties in the data. This new bivariate distribution has several interesting properties and it can be used as an alternative to the several bivariate distributions. The generation of random samples from proposed bivariate distribution is very simple, and therefore Monte Carlo simulation can be performed very easily for different statistical inference purpose. Maximum likelihood estimates of the new bivariate model are discussed. It may be mentioned that an EM algorithm along the same lines as the bivariate case may be developed. Alternatively, using the copula structure, other estimators may be used and their properties can be established. Analyses of two real data sets indicate the good performance and usefulness of the new model.

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