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- The Moment Generating Function which is also called
characteristic function, is defined in terms of probability
distribution
by
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- Note the Fourier inversion theorem gives
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Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu