Normal-Power-Logistic Distribution: Properties and Application in Generalized Linear Model

The applications of Normal distribution in literature are verse, the new modified univariate normal power distribution is a new distribution which is adequate for modelling bimodal data. There are many data that would have been modelled by normal distribution, but because of their bimodality, they are not, since normal distribution is unimodal. In this paper, a new extension of the normal linear model called the normal-Power generalized linear model, derived from the T-Power[Formula: see text] Logistic[Formula: see text] framework is presented. The statistical properties of the distribution and the proposed model were derived such as quantiles, median, mode, robust skewness, robust kurtosis and moment. The maximum likelihood estimation method was considered to obtain the unknown model parameters. Three real data sets were analyzed to demonstrate the flexibility and usefulness of the proposed model. The new model would be very useful as alternative in cases where skewed or bimodal response variables, which are not well fitted with normal linear model.