Lai, Chin-Diew; Izadi, Muhyiddin - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 82 (2012) 11, pp. 1969-1977
We propose a new reliability model which is a generalization of the logistic frailty model first considered by Vaupel (1990) for fitting human mortality data. Essentially, a shape parameter is added to the existing model providing more flexibility in modeling lifetime data. Several model...