Comparison of Five Methods to Estimate the Parameters for the Three-Parameter Lindley Distribution with Application to Life Data

Table 3

Simulated MSE and MAE values for .

		Methods	MLE	OLS	WLS	MPS	CVM
		MSE	0.03218	0.01026	0.00936	0.00842	0.00975
		MAE	0.11189	0.08125	0.07848	0.07889	0.07239
		MSE	43.48015	9.94038	8.18130	7.77936	25.34155
		MAE	9.43405	2.61525	2.44286	2.47058	2.47723
		MSE	10.72974	2.49457	2.05992	1.97869	6.29526
		MAE	4.68650	1.31081	1.22573	1.24508	1.24026
			30	22	10	11	17
		MSE	0.01052	0.00310	0.00244	0.00310	0.00290
		MAE	0.05887	0.04436	0.03963	0.04428	0.04269
		MSE	36.36728	4.71702	3.42387	3.61839	5.22673
		MAE	2.87324	1.73845	1.49404	1.52942	1.75141
		MSE	9.04372	1.18165	0.85840	0.91062	1.30726
		MAE	1.43513	0.87019	0.74798	0.76688	0.87624
			30	19.5	6	14.5	20
		MSE	0.00245	0.00118	0.00096	0.00116	0.00114
		MAE	0.02915	0.02737	0.02470	0.02668	0.02674
		MSE	9.28063	2.42122	1.72204	1.66567	2.58512
		MAE	1.41097	1.21784	1.04733	0.99332	1.22350
		MSE	2.30848	0.60595	0.43126	0.41808	0.64633
		MAE	0.70512	0.60931	0.52404	0.49746	0.61194
			30	20	10	9	21
		MSE	0.00245	0.00118	0.00096	0.00116	0.00114
		MAE	0.02915	0.02737	0.02470	0.02668	0.02674
		MSE	9.28063	2.42122	1.72204	1.66567	2.58512
		MAE	1.41097	1.21784	1.04733	0.99332	1.22350
		MSE	2.30848	0.60595	0.43126	0.41808	0.64633
		MAE	0.70512	0.60931	0.52404	0.49746	0.61194
			30	20	10	9	21
		MSE	0.00039	0.00053	0.00042	0.00038	0.00054
		MAE	0.01570	0.01836	0.01654	0.01553	0.01860
		MSE	0.64435	0.93673	0.68549	0.57175	0.97507
		MAE	0.61355	0.76963	0.66373	0.57905	0.78293
		MSE	0.16115	0.23441	0.17157	0.14333	0.24391
		MAE	0.30685	0.38495	0.33199	0.28980	0.39155
			12	24	18	6	30
		MSE	0.00021	0.00030	0.00024	0.00022	0.00030
		MAE	0.01153	0.01358	0.01211	0.01178	0.01358
		MSE	0.34852	0.57886	0.40969	0.32996	0.58881
		MAE	0.46014	0.59850	0.51026	0.45677	0.60467
		MSE	0.08713	0.14483	0.10250	0.08265	0.14728
		MAE	0.23008	0.29933	0.25519	0.22853	0.30239
			10	25	18	8	29