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Mean and Variance through Factorial Moments
Author(s) -
Broca D. S.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2005.00209.x
Subject(s) - statistics , variance (accounting) , factorial , mathematics , econometrics , economics , mathematical analysis , accounting
Summary This article shows how the use of factorial moments provides a simple, consistent yet elegant approach to finding the mean and variance of standard discrete probability distributions.