Abstract
The exponentiated Pareto distribution has been used quite effectively to model many lifetime data. In this paper, a new bivariate exponentiated Pareto distribution is introduced. The proposed bivariate distribution is derived from Gaussian copula with exponentiated Pareto distribution as marginals. Some properties of the bivariate exponentiated Pareto distribution can be obtained using the Gaussian copula property. Moreover, several methods of estimation are considered to estimate the unknown parameters of the proposed bivariate distribution. Numerical simulations are carried out to compare the performances of different estimators. Finally, one real data is analyzed and the results showed that the proposed bivariate distribution is useful for real life applications. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by IASE.