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Gui et al. (2017) proposed the Lindley geometric distribution, derived its properties including estimation issues and illustrated a data application. We introduce a new family of distributions containing the Lindley geometric distribution as a particular case. The new family is shown to provide significantly better fits. We also point out errors in various properties derived by Gui et al. (2017).
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Si, Y., Nadarajah, S. Lindley Power Series Distributions. Sankhya A 82, 242–256 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13171-018-0150-x
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