Análise de diagnóstico para o modelo de regressão Log-Birnbaum-Saunders generalizado.

Abstract

The Birnbaum-Saunders distribution emerged in 1969 motivated by problems in engineering. However, its field of application has been extended beyond the original context of material fatigue and reliability analysis. In the literature, it has made an important role in survival analysis. Moreover, many generalizations of it have been considered. In this work we present one of these generalizations, which was formulated by Mentainis in 2010. First, we provide a brief explanation of the classical Birnbaum-Saunders distribution and its generalization proposed by Mentainis (2010), which we name as the generalized Birnbaum-Saunders distribution. Thereafter, we discuss the sinh-normal distribution, which has an important relationship with the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution. In a further part of this work, we present some diagnostic methods for generalized log-Birnbaum-Saunders regression models and investigate tests of homogeneity for the corresponding shape and scale parameters. Finally, an application with real data is presented.