Exponentiated Weibull distribution (original) (raw)

In statistics, the exponentiated Weibull family of probability distributions was introduced by Mudholkar and Srivastava (1993) as an extension of the Weibull family obtained by adding a second shape parameter. The cumulative distribution function for the exponentiated Weibull distribution is for x > 0, and F(x; k; λ; α) = 0 for x < 0. Here k > 0 is the first shape parameter, α > 0 is the second shape parameter and λ > 0 is the scale parameter of the distribution. The density is There are two important special cases: