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The first contribution is theoretical: we provide a comprehensive account of its mathematical properties, specifically stochastic ordering results, a general linear representation for the exponentiated probability density function, raw\/inverted moments, incomplete moments, skewness, kurtosis, and entropy measures. Evidences show that the related model can accommodate the treatment of lifetime data with different right-skewed features, so far beyond the possibility of the former inverse Rayleigh model. We illustrate this aspect by exploring the statistical inference of the new model. Five classical different methods for the estimation of the model parameters are employed, with a simulation study comparing the numerical behavior of the different estimates. The estimation of entropy measures is also discussed numerically. Finally, two practical data sets are used as application to attest of the usefulness of the new model, with favorable goodness-of-fit results in comparison to three recent extended inverse Rayleigh models.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e22040449","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,16]],"date-time":"2020-04-16T05:15:41Z","timestamp":1587014141000},"page":"449","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":30,"title":["Statistical Inference of the Half-Logistic Inverse Rayleigh Distribution"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Abdullah M.","family":"Almarashi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Statistics Department, Faculty of Science, King AbdulAziz University, Jeddah 21577, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Majdah M.","family":"Badr","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Statistics Department, Faculty of Science for Girls, University of Jeddah, Jeddah 21577, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mohammed","family":"Elgarhy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Valley High Institute for Management Finance and Information Systems, Obour, Qaliubia 11828, Egypt"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6192-9890","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Farrukh","family":"Jamal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, Government Postgraduate College Der Nawab Bahawalpur, Punjab 63351, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Christophe","family":"Chesneau","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics, LMNO, Campus II, Science 3, Universit\u00e9 de Caen, 14032 Caen, France"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Trayer, V.N. 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