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On the tail integral formulae for real-valued random variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Saralees Nadarajah  and
Idika E. Okorie
Saralees Nadarajah
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL e-mail: mbbsssn2@manchester.ac.uk
Idika E. Okorie
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Khalifa University, P.O. Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE email: idika.okorie@ku.ac.ae
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The most important properties of any distribution are its moments. The first four moments, for example, can be used describe any data set fairly well. Moments can also be used for estimation.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 106 , Issue 567 , November 2022 , pp. 487 - 493
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© The Authors, 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Mathematical Association

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