A Probabilistic Approach to The Moments of Binomial Random Variables and Application

Duy Nguyen

The American Statistician, 2021, vol. 75, issue 1, 101-103

Abstract: In this paper, we provide a closed form formula for the moments of binomial random variables using a probabilistic approach. As an interesting application, we give a closed form formula for the sum 1k+2k+3k+…+nk .

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2019.1679257

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