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Lecture 21
Generating functions
Moment generating functions
Moments and the MGF
Sums of independent variables
Characteristic functions
Probability generating functions
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Generating functions
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Source: Adler, Robert J. - Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

Collections: Mathematics; Engineering