Approximating the negative moments of the Poisson distribution

C. Matthew Jones and Anatoly A. Zhigljavsky

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2004, vol. 66, issue 2, 171-181

Abstract: Through the use of the Stirling numbers of the first kind, a general class of approximations is derived for the negative moments of the Poisson distribution.

Keywords: Negative; moments; Stirling; numbers; of; the; first; kind; Poisson; distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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