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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JDS</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Data Science</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">1680-743X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1680-743X</issn>
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        <publisher-name>SOSRUC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">03.NO.10-361</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.6339/JDS.201907_17(3).0010</article-id>
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        <article-title>A New Generalization of Lindley Distribution</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Abdelall</surname>
            <given-names>Yassmen, Y.</given-names>
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          <email xlink:href="mailto:Uyassmenamalek@gmail.com">Uyassmenamalek@gmail.com</email>
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        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_000">Department of Mathematical Statistics; 
Institute of Statistical Studies and Research Cairo University,Egypt</aff>
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      <volume>17</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>633</fpage>
      <lpage>644</lpage>
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        <p>istribution of Lindley distribution constructed by combining the cumulative distribution function (cdf) of Lomax and Lindley distributions. Some mathematical properties of the new distribution are discussed including moments, quantile and moment generating function. Estimation of the model parameters is carried out using maximum likelihood method. Finally, real data examples are presented to illustrate the usefulness and applicability of this new distribution.</p>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Lomax-Lindley distribution</kwd>
        <kwd>moments</kwd>
        <kwd>quantile</kwd>
        <kwd>moment generating function</kwd>
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