Mathematical Expectation and Moments

Ron C. Mittelhammer
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Ron C. Mittelhammer: Washington State University, Program in Statistics and Department of Agricultural Economics

Chapter 3 in Mathematical Statistics for Economics and Business, 1996, pp 109-168 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The definition of the expectation of a random variable can be motivated both by the concept of a weighted average and through the use of the physics concept of the center of gravity, or the balancing point of a distribution of weights. We first examine the case of a discrete random variable and look at a problem involving the balancing-point concept.1

Keywords: Conditional Expectation; Mathematical Expectation; Continuous Case; Moment Generate Function; Discrete Case (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-3988-8_3

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