Some properties of cumulative Tsallis entropy of order $$\alpha $$α

Tsallis entropy of order $$\alpha $$α (see Tsallis in J Stat Phys 52(1–2):479–487, 1988) plays an important role in the measurement uncertainty of random variables. Recently, Sati and Gupta (J Probab Stat, doi:10.1155/2015/694203, 2015) introduced a cumulative Tsallis entropy of order $$\alpha $$α and studied its various properties in the context of reliability modeling. In this paper, we introduce an alternate measure of cumulative Tsallis entropy of order $$\alpha $$α and study its properties. Unlike the cumulative Tsallis entropy due to Sati and Gupta (J Probab Stat, doi:10.1155/2015/694203, 2015), the proposed measure has some additional features and has simple relationships with other important information and reliability measures.