Generalized beta-generated distributions

Authors:
Carol Alexander;Gauss M. Cordeiro;Edwin M. M. Ortega;José María Sarabia
Affiliations:
ICMA Centre, Henley Business School at Reading, UK;Departamento de Estatística, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil;Departamento de Ciências Exatas, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil;Department of Economics, University of Cantabria, Spain
Venue:
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This article introduces generalized beta-generated (GBG) distributions. Sub-models include all classical beta-generated, Kumaraswamy-generated and exponentiated distributions. They are maximum entropy distributions under three intuitive conditions, which show that the classical beta generator skewness parameters only control tail entropy and an additional shape parameter is needed to add entropy to the centre of the parent distribution. This parameter controls skewness without necessarily differentiating tail weights. The GBG class also has tractable properties: we present various expansions for moments, generating function and quantiles. The model parameters are estimated by maximum likelihood and the usefulness of the new class is illustrated by means of some real data sets.