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The offered model is more adaptable to analyzing a wide range of data than traditional and recently published models. Several important statistical and reliability characteristics of the DEC model are introduced. In the presence of Type-II censored data, the maximum likelihood and asymptotic confidence interval estimators of the model parameters are acquired. Two various bootstrapping estimators of the DEC parameters are also obtained. To examine the efficacy of the adopted methods, several simulations are implemented. To further clarify the offered model in the life scenario, the two applications, based on the number of vehicle fatalities in South Carolina in 2012 and the final exam marks in 2004 at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, are analyzed. The analysis findings showed that the DEC model is the most effective model for fitting the supplied data sets compared to eleven well-known models in literature, including: Poisson, geometric, negative binomial, discrete-Weibull, discrete Burr Type XII, discrete generalized exponential, discrete-gamma, discrete Burr Hatke, discrete Nadarajah-Haghighi, discrete modified-Weibull, and exponentiated discrete-Weibull models. 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