Research Articles
Bayesian estimation of 3-component mixture of Gumbel type-II distributions under non-informative and informative priors
Authors:
Tabasam Sultana ,
PK
About Tabasam
Department of Statistics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammad Aslam,
PK
About Muhammad
Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ripha International University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Mariya Raftab
PK
About Mariya
Department of Statistics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Abstract
This paper deals with 3-component mixture of the Gumbel type-II distributions when the scale parameter is known under Bayesian view point. The type-I right censored sampling scheme is considered due to its extensive use in reliability theory and survival analysis, taking different non-informative and informative priors. Bayes estimates of the parameters of the mixture model along with their posterior risks are derived under different loss functions. In case where no or little prior information is available, elicitation of hyperparameters is given. In order to numerically study the execution of the Bayes estimators under different loss functions, their statistical properties have been simulated for different sample sizes and test termination times. The comparisons among the estimators have been made in terms of the corresponding posterior risks. A real life data example is also given to illustrate the study.
How to Cite:
Sultana, T., Aslam, M. and Raftab, M., 2017. Bayesian estimation of 3-component mixture of Gumbel type-II distributions under non-informative and informative priors. Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, 45(3), pp.287–306. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/jnsfsr.v45i3.8193
Published on
26 Sep 2017.
Peer Reviewed
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