Cumulants of a random variable distributed uniformly on the first $$n$$ n integers

Christopher Withers () and Saralees Nadarajah ()

AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis, 2015, vol. 99, issue 2, 229-236

Abstract: Motivated by a roundoff problem, we derive new expressions for cumulants of a random variable distributed uniformly on $$0,1, \ldots , n-1$$ 0 , 1 , … , n - 1 . Their computational efficiency over a known expression is discussed. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: Bell polynomials; Cumulant; Roundoff (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10182-014-0238-0

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