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Formulae for absolute moments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

B. M. Brown
Affiliation:
La Trobe University
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The purpose of this note is to derive an alternative expression to that given in Lemma 1 below (due to Hsu, and to von Bahr) for the absolute moments of a random variable, in terms of the characteristic function.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1972

References

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