On Minimal-Moment Generating Functions

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 - Trang 145-155 - 2002
M.C. Spruill1
1School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

Tóm tắt

A formula expressing the inverse cumulative distribution function of a non-negative random variable in terms of contour integrals of its minimal-moment generating function is proved as well as an analog of the classical continuity theorem for characteristic functions.