  In this paper, we introduce a new class of distributions by compounding the
exponentiated extended Weibull family and power series family. This
distribution contains several lifetime models such as the complementary
extended Weibull-power series, generalized exponential-power series,
generalized linear failure rate-power series, exponentiated Weibull-power
series, generalized modified Weibull-power series, generalized Gompertz-power
series and exponentiated extended Weibull distributions as special cases. We
obtain several properties of this new class of distributions such as Shannon
entropy, mean residual life, hazard rate function, quantiles and moments. The
maximum likelihood estimation procedure via a EM-algorithm is presented.
