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Jamal Arkat

Jamal Arkat

Academic rank: Professor
ORCID:
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 55912953100
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Address: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran
Phone: 08733660073

Research

Title
Estimating the parameters of Weibull distribution using simulated annealing algorithm
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Weibull probability distribution - Simulated annealing - Parameter estimation - Maximum likelihood estimation
Year
2006
Journal APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION
DOI
Researchers Babak Abasi ، Abdolhamid Eshragh Jahromi ، Jamal Arkat ، Mehdi Hossein kochak

Abstract

Weibull distribution plays an important role in failure distribution modeling in reliability studies. It is a hard work to estimate the parameters of Weibull distribution. This distribution has three parameters, but for simplicity, a parameter is omitted and as a result, the estimation of the others will be easily done. When the three-parameter distribution is of interest, the estimation procedure will be quite boring. Maximum likelihood estimation is a good method, which is usually used to elaborate on the parameter estimation. The likelihood function formed for the parameter estimation of a three-parameter Weibull distribution is very hard to maximize. Many researchers have studied this maximization problem. In this paper, we have briefly discussed this problem and proposed a new approach based on the simulated algorithm to solve that.