Same Moment Generating Function, Same Prob. Distribution

Josh S Thompson · Nov 8, 2015

How do you know that if two random variables have the same moment generating function then they have the same probability distribution.

mathman · Nov 8, 2015

Josh S Thompson said:

How do you know that if two random variables have the same moment generating function then they have the same probability distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment-generating_function

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Same Moment Generating Function, Same Prob. Distribution

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