The Existence of the First Negative Moment Revisited

André Khuri André Khuri and George Casella are Professors, Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 . Casella's research was supported by NSF Grant DMS 9971586.

George Casella André Khuri and George Casella are Professors, Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 . Casella's research was supported by NSF Grant DMS 9971586.

Abstract

This article demonstrates the utility of a comparison test for integrals in showing the existence of E(1/X), the first negative moment of a continuous random variable X. In addition, this article presents several extensions and generalizations of the results in a previous work by Piegorsch and Casella.

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