Timeline for Real life uses of Moment generating functions
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| Dec 6, 2022 at 0:42 | history | edited | kjetil b halvorsen♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2018 at 11:01 | history | edited | kjetil b halvorsen♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2018 at 1:38 | comment | added | ijoseph | The actuarial use-cases in the linked PDF questions assume that mysteriously, one is given the MGF of a distribution out of what seems like thin air, and is therefore not particularly illuminating. Googling “actuarial MGF” similarly circularly just leads to other academic questions that are predicated in somehow already knowing the MGF of a mysterious distribution. How might one derive such a thing if unknown? Your other examples, however, are more illustrative. | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 10:03 | history | edited | kjetil b halvorsen♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 20, 2017 at 9:58 | history | edited | kjetil b halvorsen♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 20, 2017 at 9:46 | history | answered | kjetil b halvorsen♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |