Weibull is a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

locational surname A toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name,

. The Weibull family share the same roots as the Danish / Norwegian noble family of Falsenbr>
They originated from and were named after the village of Weiböl in Widstedts parish,

Jutland Jutland (; , ''Jyske Halvø'' or ''Cimbriske Halvø''; , ''Kimbrische Halbinsel'' or ''Jütische Halbinsel'') is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein). It ...

, but settled in

Skåne Scania ( ), also known by its native name of Skåne (), is the southernmost of the historical provinces of Sweden, provinces () of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous w ...

, Sweden in the 17th century.''Släkten Weibulls Hemsida''
"Family Weibull Ancestry"
Retrieved on 14 January 2016. The surname Weibull may refer to: * Curt Weibull (1886–1991), Swedish historian *

Lauritz Weibull Lauritz Ulrik Absalon Weibull (2 April 1873 – 2 December 1960) was a Swedish professor and historian. Biography He was born in Lund, Sweden, as the son of history professor Martin Weibull and the brother of historian Curt Weibull. He enro ...

(1873–1960), Swedish historian * Marie Weibull Kornias (born 1954), Swedish politician *

Waloddi Weibull Ernst Hjalmar Waloddi Weibull (18 June 1887 – 12 October 1979) was a Swedish civil engineer, Materials science, materials scientist, and Mathematician#Applied mathematics, applied mathematician. The Weibull distribution is named after him. Edu ...

(1887–1979), Swedish scientist and mathematician

Other uses

A number of statistical concepts are named after

: * Exponentiated Weibull distribution * Poly-Weibull distribution *

Q-Weibull distribution In statistics, the ''q''-Weibull distribution is a probability distribution that generalizes the Weibull distribution and the Lomax distribution (Pareto Type II). It is one example of a Tsallis distribution. Characterization Probability dens ...

Weibull distribution In probability theory and statistics, the Weibull distribution is a continuous probability distribution. It models a broad range of random variables, largely in the nature of a time to failure or time between events. Examples are maximum on ...

* Weibull fading *

Weibull modulus The Weibull modulus is a Dimensionless quantity, dimensionless parameter of the Weibull distribution. It represents the width of a probability density function (PDF) in which a higher modulus is a characteristic of a narrower distribution of values ...

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