An extension of the discrete lindley distribution with applications

Abstract

An extension of the discrete Lindley distribution is obtained by discretizing the continuous failure rate model in the generalized continuous distribution in Zakerzadeh and Dolati [Zakerzadeh, Y., & Dolati, A. (2009). Generalized Lindley distribution. Journal of Mathematical Extension, 3(2), 13-25]. The result is a generalization of the geometric distribution which presents high versatility since covariates can be included in the model.