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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Volume 2012, Article ID 760687, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/760687 Research Article A Family of Lifetime Distributions Vasileios Pappas,1 Konstantinos Adamidis,2 and Sotirios Loukas1 1 Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece 2 Department of Business Administration of Food and Agricultural Enterprises, University of Ioannina, 30100 Agrinio, Greece Correspondence should be addressed to Konstantinos Adamidis, cadamid@cc.uoi.gr Received 20 November 2011; Revised 5 March 2012; Accepted 5 March 2012 Academic Editor: Suk joo Bae Copyright © 2012 Vasileios Pappas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A four-parameter family of Weibull distributions is introduced, as an example of a more general class created along the lines of Marshall and Olkin, 1997. Various properties of the distribution are explored and its usefulness in modelling real data is demonstrated using maximum likelihood estimates. 1. Introduction four-parameter Weibull model is introduced in Section 3 and some properties and reliability aspects are studied. Probability distributions are often used in survival analysis The parameters are estimated by the method of maximum for modeling data, because they offer insight into the nature likelihood and the observed information matrix is obtained; of various parameters and functions, particularly the