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Table 1 Inverse function x=H −1(y) for some EG models

From: An extended-G geometric family

Distribution

x=H −1(y)

Exponential power

\(\frac {[\log (y+1)]^{1/\beta }}{\lambda }\)

Chen

\(\left [\log (y+1)\right ]^{1/\beta }\)

XTG

\(\lambda \big [\log \big (y/\lambda +1\big)\big ]^{\frac {1}{\beta }}\)

Log-Weibull

\(\sigma \log (y)+\mu \)

Kies

\(\frac {y^{1/\beta }\sigma +\mu }{y^{1/\beta }+1}\)

Generalized power Weibull

\(\beta \left [(y+1)^{1/\theta }-1\right ]^{1/\alpha _{1}}\)

BLZ

\(\frac {\log (t)\pm \sqrt {\left [\log (y)\right ]^{2}+4\alpha _{1}\beta }}{2\alpha _{1}}\)

Gompertz

\(\frac {\log \left (\alpha _{1}y+1\right)}{\alpha _{1}}\)

Pham

\(\Big [\frac {\log (1+y)}{\log (a_{1})}\Big ]^{1/\alpha _{1}}\)