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The Teacher's Corner

The Moment-Generating Function and Negative Integer Moments

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Pages 148-150 | Received 01 Apr 1980, Published online: 12 Mar 2012
 

Abstract

It does not appear to be widely known that the moment-generating function Mx (t) contains information about negative as well as positive integer moments. Proofs of this are provided, extensions are indicated, and earlier literature deriving and using this type of result is briefly noted. Some examples are given.

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