“…Count data with overdispersion and extra zeros are often solved by mixing the Poisson or NB distribution with a lifetime distribution. Many studies have shown that mixed and compound distributions such as the Poisson-inverse Gaussian distribution (Willmot, 1987), NB-inverse Gaussian distribution (Gómez-Déniz et al, 2008), NB-lindley distribution (Zamani and Ismail, 2010), NB-beta exponential distribution (Pudprommarat et al, 2012), NB-erlang distribution (Kongrod et al, 2014), and NB-Sushila distribution (Yamrubboon et al, 2017) are more suitable for the count data than the Poisson and NB distributions. Therefore, in order to obtain another competitive alternative mixed distribution to the aforementioned distributions, we looked for a new lifetime distribution that can be expressed in closed form for building such a mixed model.…”