Mean and variance through factorial moments


Authors: 
Broca, D. S.
Category: 
Volume: 
27(2)
Pages: 
55-57
Year: 
2005
Publisher: 
Teaching Statistics
Abstract: 

This article shows how the use of factorial moments provides a simple, consistent yet elegant approach to finding the mean dn variance of standard discrete probability distributions.

The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education

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