1.7Leading Up to the Central Limit Theorem Moment Generating Function---I

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1.7Leading Up to the Central Limit Theorem Moment Generating Function---I

The Moment Generating Function which is also called characteristic function, is defined in terms of probability distribution by
Note the Fourier inversion theorem gives

Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu