Population moments of sampling distributions -- from Wolfram Library Archive

Title

Population moments of sampling distributions

Author

J Vrbik

Journal / Anthology

COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS

Year:

2005

Volume:

Issue:

Page range:

611-621

Description

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.

Subjects

	Mathematics > Probability and Statistics
	Social Science > Sociology and Psychology

Keywords

population moments, symmetric polynomial, sum of independent powers

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