A new two-parameter lifetime distribution with bathtub shape or increasing failure rate function

Exponentiated Weibull family for analyzing bathtub failure-rate data

G. S. Mudholkar, Divesh Srivastava · IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 1993 · 1.2K citations

Engineering, Civil Engineering, Bayesian Data Analysis +6

Some Theorems Relevant to Life Testing from an Exponential Distribution

Benjamin Epstein, Matthew J. Sobel · The Annals of Mathematical Statistics · 1954 · 315 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Probability Theory +11

A Reliability Distribution with Increasing, Decreasing, Constant and Bathtub-Shaped Failure Rates

Urban Hjorth · Technometrics · 1980 · 213 citations

Business, Risk Management, Risk Analysis +16

A Reliability Distribution With Increasing, Decreasing, Constant and Bathtub-Shaped Failure Rates

Urban Hjorth · Technometrics · 1980 · 184 citations

Business, Risk Management, Risk Analysis +16

An exponential power life-testing distribution

Robert M. Smith, Lee J. Bain · Communications in Statistics · 1975 · 153 citations

Public Health, Biostatistics, Econometrics +13