Timeline for Motivation of Moment Generating Functions
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| Aug 1, 2010 at 3:30 | comment | added | Mark Meckes | Actually, it's a Laplace transform. The difference is important: it's possible to find $X_1$ such that $\phi(t)$ diverges except for $t=0$. But the Fourier transform $E(e^{itX})$ is defined for every real-valued random variable and every real $t$. | |
| Aug 1, 2010 at 0:15 | history | answered | Yuval Filmus | CC BY-SA 2.5 |