Research Article
A New Version of Weighted Weibull Distribution: Modelling to
COVID-19 Data
Amani Abdullah Alahmadi,
1
Mohammed Alqawba,
2
Waleed Almutiry ,
2
A. W. Shawki,
3
Sharifah Alrajhi,
4
Sanaa Al-Marzouki,
4
and Mohammed Elgarhy
5
1
College of Science and Humanities, Shaqra University, Shaqra, Saudi Arabia
2
Department of Mathematics, College of Science and Arts, Qassim University, Ar Rass, Saudi Arabia
3
Central Agency for Public Mobilization & Statistics (CAPMAS), Cairo, Egypt
4
Statistics Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
5
e Higher Institute of Commercial Sciences, Al Mahalla Al Kubra, Algarbia 31951, Egypt
Correspondence should be addressed to Mohammed Elgarhy; m_elgarhy85@sva.edu.eg
Received 18 September 2021; Revised 31 October 2021; Accepted 14 March 2022; Published 21 April 2022
Academic Editor: Sovan Samanta
Copyright © 2022 Amani Abdullah Alahmadi et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons
Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is
properly cited.
In this study, we will look at a new flexible model known as the new double-weighted Weibull distribution. e new Weibull
double-weighted distribution model is highly versatile because numerous submodels are included. e proposed model is very
flexible because its density function has many shapes; it can be right skewness, decreasing, and unimodal. Also, the hazard rate
function can be increasing, decreasing, up-side-down, and J-shaped. Diverse features of the novel are computed. ese qualities
include moments, incomplete moments, and Lorenz and Bonferroni curves and quantiles, as well as entropy and order statistics.
e maximum likelihood approach is used to estimate the model’s parameters. In order to evaluate the accuracy and performance
of maximum likelihood estimators, simulation data are presented. e utility and adaptability of the proposed model are
demonstrated by utilizing three significant datasets: daily fatalities confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Egypt and Georgia and relief
times of twenty patients using an analgesic.
1. Introduction
In 1951, Swedish scientist Walled Weibull created the
Weibull (Wei) distribution. e Wei distribution is a fre-
quently used distribution for modelling lifetime data in
dependability where the hazard rate function is monotone.
However, when the true hazard shape is unimodal or
bathtub, the two-parameter Wei distribution is inadequate
in many applications, such as lifetime analysis. To deal with
bathtub-shaped failure rates, many generalizations of the
Wei distribution have been proposed in the statistical
literature.
e probability density function (pdf ) and cumulative
distribution function (cdf ) have the following shape:
g(x) αβx
β− 1
e
− αx
β
, x > 0, α, β > 0,
(1)
G(x) 1 − e
− αx
β
, x > 0,
(2)
where β is a positive shape parameter and α is a positive scale
parameter.
Weighted (W) distributions may be used to increase
comprehension of standard distributions as well as provide
techniques for extending distributions for additional flexi-
bility in fitting a dataset. A W distribution can be obtained in
a variety of ways. In 1934, Fisher proposed the concept of W
distribution. Rao [1] and Patil and Rao [2] discuss appli-
cations of a W distribution to biased samples in many
disciplines such as medicine, ecology, dependability, and
branching processes (1978). Patil and Rao [2] suggested a
Hindawi
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2022, Article ID 3994361, 12 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3994361