A New Approach to the Quadratic Transmuted Family: A Note and a New Family

Abstract

In this paper, another motivation for the well-known quadratic transmuted family of distributions is pointed out and a new relation for the expected value of this family in terms of the Gini index is presented. A bug of the generalized transmuted-G family of distributions Nofal et al. (Commun Stat Theory Methods 46:4119–4136, 2016) is illustrated. In that work, the necessary conditions for the density and distribution functions are not satisfied, for some parameter values. Moreover, a new flexible family of distributions is introduced from a fresh perspective, and their key properties are studied in general forms. As an example, a new high flexible distribution is introduced and some of its important futures such as the moment generating function, moments, order statistics and the stress-strength parameter are investigated. In addition, the parameters of the proposed new distribution are estimated using the maximum likelihood method, and three real data sets are scrutinized to assess the distribution’s adequacy in providing satisfactory fits. © Grace Scientific Publishing 2025.