Weibullization

Weibullization

English

Alternative forms

• Weibullisation (Commonwealth), weibullization

Etymology

Weibull +‎ -ization

Noun

Weibullization (plural Weibullizations)

1. (mathematical statistics) The operation of adding an extra parameter to the exponent of a density or distribution function.
   • 2003, Christian Kleiber and Samuel Kotz, Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences, John Wiley and Sons, p. 174

     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.

   • 2019, Gavin E. Crooks, Field Guide to Continuous Probability Distributions, p. 72

     [The Amoroso distribution] occurs as the Weibullization of the standard gamma distribution […]

   • 2019, Gavin E. Crooks, Field Guide to Continuous Probability Distributions, p. 117

     The generalized beta distribution arises as the Weibullization of the standard beta distribution […]

   • 2019, Gavin E. Crooks, Field Guide to Continuous Probability Distributions, p. 142 (note capitalization)

     The Beta-Fisher-Tippett occurs as the weibullization of the beta-exponential distribution […]

Related terms

• Weibullize

Translations

Translations

German: Weibullisierung f