Table 5 Parameters estimates, −log (L), k-s test value and p-value for the selected distributions of the tongue cancer patient’s data set.

From: Binomial-discrete Erlang-truncated exponential mixture and its application in cancer disease

Distribution

Distribution’s parameters

−Log(L)

k-s

p-value

BG

\(\widehat{p}=0.1236\)

\(\widehat{\theta }=0.00246\)

157.5224

23.69

0.5935

NB

\(\widehat{p}=0.01965\)

\(\widehat{r}=1.0025\)

157.5224

23.71

0.5922

DETE

\(\widehat{p}=0.4672\)

\(\widehat{\beta }=0.02600\)

157.5224

23.69

0.5933

DEETE

\(\widehat{\alpha }=0.999\)

\(\widehat{p}=0.98476\)

\(\widehat{\beta }=1.289\)

157.5224

23.69

0.5938

DKw_ETE

\(\widehat{\alpha }=0.389\)

\(\widehat{\theta }=0.0922\)

\(\widehat{p}=0.3754\)

\(\widehat{\beta }=0.1997\)

158.1346

23.14

0.5904

BDETE (proposed)

\(\widehat{p}=0.54021\)

\(\widehat{\omega }=0.2856\)

\(\widehat{\beta }=0.0858\)

157.487

23.12

0.5960