Timeline for Moment Generating Function: Pulling a term out of k-times differentiation
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| Feb 20, 2010 at 21:31 | vote | accept | vonjd | ||
| Feb 20, 2010 at 21:26 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | $\mathbb{E}$ is a linear operation. It is after all integration with respect to a probability measure. The parameter $\theta$ is auxiliary -- it is a constant from the point of view of integration. | |
| Feb 20, 2010 at 21:06 | comment | added | vonjd | Thank you - why are you allowed to do that (interchanging differentiation and $\mathbb{E}$)? And why are you allowed to pull out the ${1\over k!}$? | |
| Feb 20, 2010 at 20:41 | history | answered | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | CC BY-SA 2.5 |