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Moment-generating Functions

A Moment-Generating Function is a real-valued function defined on a real domain that belongs to the class of analytical tools used in probability theory to characterize the distribution of a random variable by generating its moments through derivatives evaluated at zero.

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Generalized Cumulant Expansion Method

Ryogo Kubo · Journal of the Physical Society of Japan · 1962 · 1.8K citations

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A Multivariate Exponential Distribution

Albert W. Marshall, Ingram Olkin · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1967 · 1.6K citations

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A Generalization of the Gamma Distribution

E. W. Stacy · The Annals of Mathematical Statistics · 1962 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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A Note on the Delta Method

Gary W. Oehlert · The American Statistician · 1992 · 1.3K citations

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An Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and its Applications.

Bradley Skarpness, Richard J. Larsen, Morris L. Marx · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1983 · 1.2K citations

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  1. GM
    Gauss M. Cordeiro

    Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

    24 publications · 1.7K citations

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  2. MA
    Mohamed‐Slim Alouini

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

    12 publications · 942 citations

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  3. ME
    Mohammed Elgarhy

    Cairo University, Egypt

    12 publications · 362 citations

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  4. SN
    Saralees Nadarajah

    University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    14 publications · 620 citations

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  5. NB
    N. Balakrishnan

    McMaster University, Canada

    11 publications · 499 citations

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Institutions

960

  1. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

    Recife, Brazil

    16 h-index

    32 publications

    2K citations

  2. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    16 h-index

    24 publications

    3K citations

  3. University of Alberta

    Edmonton, Canada

    15 h-index

    34 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. Cairo University

    Giza, Egypt

    13 h-index

    26 publications

    662 citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    13 h-index

    21 publications

    657 citations

  6. University of Copenhagen

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    12 h-index

    16 publications

    914 citations

  7. McMaster University

    Hamilton, Canada

    12 h-index

    15 publications

    607 citations

  8. University of Waterloo

    Waterloo, Canada

    11 h-index

    26 publications

    694 citations

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  1. IEEE Transactions on Communications

    32 publications · 2.1K citations

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  2. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

    37 publications · 2K citations

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  3. Biometrika

    35 publications · 2.4K citations

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  4. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics

    24 publications · 2.4K citations

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  5. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods

    44 publications · 1.7K citations

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