Table 6 Parameters estimates, −log (L), k-s test value and p-value for the selected distributions of the leukemia 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

\(\widehat{p}=0.1128\)

\(\widehat{\theta }=0.00443\)

127.54

33.05

0.1030

NB

\(\widehat{p}=0.03907\)

\(\widehat{r}=1.02983\)

127.54

33.42

0.0954

DETE

\(\widehat{p}=0.4595\)

\(\widehat{\beta }=0.0497\)

127.55

33.07

0.1030

DEETE

\(\widehat{\alpha }=1.582\)

\(\widehat{p}=0.9753\)

\(\widehat{\beta }=1.608\)

127.55

33.91

0.0863

DKw_ETE

\(\widehat{\alpha }=1.471\)

\(\widehat{\theta }=0.1169\)

\(\widehat{p}=0.0042\)

\(\widehat{\beta }=0.0648\)

127.20

38.12

0.0337

BDETE (proposed)

\(\widehat{p}=0.5394\)

\(\widehat{\omega }=0.2728\)

\(\widehat{\beta }=0.0162\)

127.24

33.01

0.1038