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

Table 6

Simulated MSE and MAE values for .

		Methods	MLE	OLS	WLS	MPS	CVM
		MSE	0.70679	0.20333	0.18211	0.14954	0.34231
		MAE	0.49513	0.32538	0.30905	0.30597	0.39874
		MSE	9.65813	2.57452	2.27693	1.78596	4.33115
		MAE	2.02567	1.39712	1.31386	1.18546	1.75046
		MSE	23.59916	5.91723	5.29318	4.13198	9.98005
		MAE	3.12830	2.11840	2.00008	1.80460	2.65809
			30	18	12	6	24
		MSE	0.11144	0.10159	0.09699	0.08264	0.12154
		MAE	0.24409	0.25875	0.25245	0.24785	0.27211
		MSE	2.11424	2.04946	1.98698	1.49819	2.44848
		MAE	1.19660	1.24289	1.22727	1.10448	1.32051
		MSE	4.81637	4.65230	4.52961	3.42073	5.55365
		MAE	1.80455	1.87439	1.85195	1.67023	1.99037
			17	21	15	7	30
		MSE	0.04638	0.05668	0.05298	0.05632	0.05752
		MAE	0.17603	0.20285	0.19396	0.20489	0.19851
		MSE	1.18298	1.29965	1.22888	1.12028	1.40697
		MAE	0.90122	0.98171	0.94750	0.91717	1.00321
		MSE	2.64623	2.94626	2.77000	2.54612	3.18810
		MAE	1.35253	1.47795	1.42273	1.38288	1.51001
			8	24	16	14	28
		MSE	0.03774	0.04979	0.04402	0.04442	0.05140
		MAE	0.15914	0.18567	0.17370	0.17625	0.18767
		MSE	0.99836	1.13319	1.06474	0.96882	1.21750
		MAE	0.82878	0.90220	0.87451	0.85537	0.92640
		MSE	2.25457	2.56297	2.39748	2.20537	2.75261
		MAE	1.24645	1.35657	1.31250	1.28998	1.39279
			8	24	16	12	30
		MSE	0.02392	0.03347	0.02822	0.03321	0.03228
		MAE	0.12421	0.14950	0.13665	0.14758	0.14688
		MSE	0.61928	0.75490	0.67782	0.72412	0.75762
		MAE	0.64467	0.73119	0.68630	0.71184	0.72699
		MSE	1.39973	1.70290	1.52836	1.64596	1.70962
		MAE	0.96927	1.09756	1.03002	1.07266	1.09141
			6	28	12	20	24
		MSE	0.01411	0.02180	0.01702	0.01995	0.02099
		MAE	0.09269	0.11508	0.10070	0.10868	0.11370
		MSE	0.40840	0.55654	0.46808	0.49339	0.55312
		MAE	0.50869	0.60068	0.54687	0.56429	0.59688
		MSE	0.92151	1.25077	1.05215	1.12009	1.24249
		MAE	0.76418	0.90062	0.81990	0.84957	0.89478
			6	30	12	18	24