The New Strange Generalized Rayleigh Family: Characteristics and Applications to COVID-19 Data
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a novel family of continuous distributions known as the OddGeneralized Rayleigh-G Family. Within this family, we present a special sub-model known as the odd Generalized Rayleigh Inverse Weibull (OGRIW) distribution. The OGRIW distribution is derived by combining the T-X family and the Generalized Rayleigh distribution. We provide a comprehensive expansion of the (PDF) and (CDF) for the OGRIW distribution. Additionally, we investigate several mathematical properties of the OGRIW distribution, including moments, moment-generating function, incomplete moments, quantile function, order statistics and Rényi entropy. To estimate the model parameters, we employ the maximum likelihood method, aiming to identify the parameter values that maximise the likelihood of the observed data.Finally, we apply the proposed OGRIW distribution to two real COVID-19 datasets from Mexico and Canada. The results of these applications demonstrate that the new distribution exhibits remarkable flexibility and outperforms other comparative distributions in terms of accurately modelling the COVID-19 data.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.017 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".