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

Table 4

Simulated MSE and MAE values for .

		Methods	MLE	OLS	WLS	MPS	CVM
		MSE	0.14601	0.03947	0.03631	0.03684	0.05132
		MAE	0.23835	0.16298	0.15646	0.16313	0.16916
		MSE	71.23759	3.82925	4.12533	5.03375	17.29708
		MAE	4.17613	1.58224	1.48048	1.41634	1.92063
		MSE	67.78865	3.79938	4.08219	5.00455^3	16.18706
		MAE	4.07386	1.58602	1.48560	1.43176	1.91369
			30	13	10	13	24
		MSE	0.02479	0.01491	0.01405	0.01557	0.01536
		MAE	0.10212	0.09886	0.09431	0.10131	0.09720
		MSE	3.76396	1.84640	1.65069	1.55848	2.15370
		MAE	1.28676	1.11793	1.06370	1.03561	1.17191
		MSE	3.76245	1.84675	1.65356	1.57176	2.15014
		MAE	1.28701	1.11841	1.06473	1.03957	1.17156
			30	17	10	12	21
		MSE	0.00749	0.00977	0.00786	0.00959	0.00931
		MAE	0.06596	0.07759	0.07002	0.07591	0.07478
		MSE	1.20820	1.19844	1.02540	1.04832	1.25362
		MAE	0.84381	0.90047	0.82780	0.82641	0.90760
		MSE	1.20128	1.19806	1.02577	1.05479	1.25156
		MAE	0.84338	0.90057	0.82819	0.82857	0.90729
			16	24	9	15	26
		MSE	0.00488	0.00701	0.00579	0.00681	0.00664
		MAE	0.05512	0.06602	0.06049	0.06323	0.06381
		MSE	0.75079	0.95293	0.80563	0.80042	0.97670
		MAE	0.70061	0.78612	0.72550	0.71594	0.78956
		MSE	0.75088	0.95296	0.80621	0.80450	0.97609
		MAE	0.70075	0.78637	0.72589	0.71736	0.78963
			6	26	16	15	27
		MSE	0.00249	0.00332	0.00275	0.00321	0.00318
		MAE	0.03992	0.04539	0.04172	0.04429	0.04483
		MSE	0.43720	0.51020	0.44399	0.47251	0.51644
		MAE	0.53520	0.58229	0.54531	0.56199	0.58181
		MSE	0.43716	0.51061	0.44431	0.47378	0.51656
		MAE	0.53527	0.58256	0.54552	0.56257	0.58196
			6	28	12	19	25
		MSE	0.00141	0.00192	0.00158	0.00164	0.00189
		MAE	0.02956	0.03486	0.03149	0.03131	0.03472
		MSE	0.24155	0.31334	0.26297	0.25504	0.31684
		MAE	0.38629	0.44107	0.40250	0.39923	0.44152
		MSE	0.24191	0.31359	0.26327	0.25568	0.31696
		MAE	0.38651	0.44125	0.40268	0.39960	0.44163
			6	26	17	13	28