Barreto-Souza, Wagner; Cribari-Neto, Francisco - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 79 (2009) 24, pp. 2493-2500
The two-parameter distribution known as exponential-Poisson (EP) distribution, which has decreasing failure rate, was introduced by Kus (2007). In this paper we generalize the EP distribution and show that the failure rate of the new distribution can be decreasing or increasing. The failure rate...