Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

weibullization

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: weibul-liza-tion
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The operation of adding an extra parameter to the exponent of a density or distribution function.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"All that Waloddi Weibull, a Swedish physicist, did in his pioneering reports No.'s 151 and 153 for the Engineering Academy in 1939 was to add a “small a” to the c.d.f. of the exponential distribution, and what a difference it did cause! Nowadays we refer to this operation as Weibullization."
"[The Amoroso distribution] occurs as the Weibullization of the standard gamma distribution […]"
"The generalized beta distribution arises as the Weibullization of the standard beta distribution […]"
"The Beta-Fisher-Tippett occurs as the weibullization of the beta-exponential distribution […]"

Etymology

From Weibull + -ization.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Weibull

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

Weibullisation (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

Weibullize

Questions

What does weibullization mean?: The operation of adding an extra parameter to the exponent of a density or distribution function.
Where does weibullization come from?: From Weibull + -ization.

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