Moment generating functions of continous probability distributions

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Jun 21, 2013

derive the MGF hence find their mean and variance
1 weibull distribution
2 pareto distribution
3 lognormal distribution

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Okay, what have you done? What are the the formulas for those distributions and what are their "moments"?

Do you know the definition of "moment generating function"?

Moment generating functions of continous probability distributions

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Moment generating functions of continous probability distributions

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