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Weibullization

Weibullization noun: the operation of adding an extra parameter to the exponent of a density or distribution function.

Noun

Weibullization (uncountable)

  1. (mathematical statistics) The operation of adding an extra parameter to the exponent of a density or distribution function.
    • All that Waloddi Weibull, a Swedish physicist, did in his pioneering reports No.'s 151 and 153 for the Engineering Academy in 1939 was to add a “small a” to the c.d.f. of the exponential distribution, and what a difference it did cause! Nowadays we refer to this operation as Weibullization.2003, Christian Kleiber, Samuel Kotz, Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences, John Wiley and Sons, page 174
    • [The Amoroso distribution] occurs as the Weibullization of the standard gamma distribution […]2019, Gavin E. Crooks, Field Guide to Continuous Probability Distributions, page 72

Examples of Weibullization in a sentence

  • The generalized beta distribution arises as the Weibullization of the standard beta distribution […]2019, Gavin E. Crooks, Field Guide to Continuous Probability Distributions, page 117:
  • The Beta-Fisher-Tippett occurs as the weibullization of the beta-exponential distribution […]2019, Gavin E. Crooks, Field Guide to Continuous Probability Distributions, p. 142 (note capitalization)

Forms of Weibullization

alternative formWeibullisation
alternative formweibullization

Origin of Weibullization

From Weibull + -ization.

Questions about Weibullization

What does Weibullization mean?
Weibullization means the operation of adding an extra parameter to the exponent of a density or distribution function.
How do you use Weibullization in a sentence?
The generalized beta distribution arises as the Weibullization of the standard beta distribution […]
What part of speech is Weibullization?
Weibullization is a noun.

Words near Weibullization in the dictionary

  1. Weible
  2. Weibles
  3. Weibo
  4. Weibull
  5. weibullite
  6. Weibullization
  7. Weibulls
  8. weibyeite
  9. Weichel
  10. Weichels
  11. Weicheng

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