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Obtain the moments of a probability mass function?

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POSTED BY: Seyi Olorire
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POSTED BY: Jim Baldwin
Posted 7 years ago

Playing around with this a bit and trying different values of k suggests that the general formula for the i-th moment is given by

m[i_, n_,  k_, \[Theta]_] := - FactorialPower[n, i]^k \[Theta]^i  HypergeometricPFQ[ConstantArray[i - n, k], 
    ConstantArray[i + 1, k - 1], (-1)^(k - 1) \[Theta]/(-1 + \[Theta])]/
    ((i!)^(k - 1) (-1 + \[Theta])^i (-1 + HypergeometricPFQ[ConstantArray[-n, k], ConstantArray[1, k - 1], 
    (-1)^(k - 1) \[Theta]/(-1 + \[Theta])]))
POSTED BY: Jim Baldwin
Posted 7 years ago
POSTED BY: Seyi Olorire
Posted 7 years ago

If you set specific integer values for v, you'll get results and be able to see the pattern.

POSTED BY: Jim Baldwin
Posted 7 years ago
POSTED BY: Seyi Olorire
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