Relation To Other Functions
Related to the moment-generating function are a number of other transforms that are common in probability theory:
- characteristic function
- The characteristic function is related to the moment-generating function via the characteristic function is the moment-generating function of iX or the moment generating function of X evaluated on the imaginary axis. This function can also be viewed as the Fourier transform of the probability density function, which can therefore be deduced from it by inverse Fourier transform.
- cumulant-generating function
- The cumulant-generating function is defined as the logarithm of the moment-generating function; some instead define the cumulant-generating function as the logarithm of the characteristic function, while others call this latter the second cumulant-generating function.
- probability-generating function
- The probability-generating function is defined as This immediately implies that
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