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 Population moments of sampling distributions
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 We describe a simple technique for computing population moments of a large class of sample statistics. We assume these to be symmetric functions of n independent observations, where n is relatively large. This enables us to expand the results in powers of 1/n. The algorithm is demonstrated using Mathematica.
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 population moments, symmetric polynomial, sum of independent powers
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