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Derivations of moments for discrete probability distributions using backward difference operators  

Cho, Kil-Ho (Department of Statistics, Kyungpook National Universtity)
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Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society / v.22, no.3, 2011 , pp. 505-513 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we obtain the derivations of moments of discrete probability distributions by using the backward difference operators. Also, we presents such derivations for several well-known distributions; they are the binomial, Poisson, geometric, hypergeometric and negative hypergeometric distributions.
Keywords
Backward difference operators; discrete probability distributions; moments;
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