Related Concepts
The probability-generating function is an example of a generating function of a sequence: see also formal power series. It is occasionally called the z-transform of the probability mass function.
Other generating functions of random variables include the moment-generating function, the characteristic function and the cumulant generating function.
Read more about this topic: Probability-generating Function
Famous quotes containing the words related and/or concepts:
“No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated.”
—Isaac Newton (16421727)
“During our twenties...we act toward the new adulthood the way sociologists tell us new waves of immigrants acted on becoming Americans: we adopt the host cultures values in an exaggerated and rigid fashion until we can rethink them and make them our own. Our idea of what adults are and what were supposed to be is composed of outdated childhood concepts brought forward.”
—Roger Gould (20th century)