In this paper we achieved two goals. The first one is to introduce and study a new family of M–O extended distributions and study its statistical and reliability properties. The second goal is to estimate the unknown parameters of the new family and provide some applications in the context of statistics and reliability. The obtained results are validated using two real data sets and it is shown that the new family provides a better fit than some other known distributions. Further properties and applications of the new family can be considered in the future of this research. In particular the following topics are interesting, and still remain as open problems:
(i)
Introduce and study a new class of weighted M–O generalized linear exponential distribution.
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Discuss the Bayesian analysis of the new family.