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Extreme nth moments for distributions on [0, 1] and the inverse of a moment space map

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Morris Skibinsky*
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.

Extract

Let n be a positive integer. Denote by Mn the convex, closed, bounded, and n-dimensional set of all n-tuples (c1, c2,···, cn) such that for some probability measure a on the Borel subsets of the unit interval I = [0,1].

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Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1968 

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