Moments with Laplace
This is a quick note to mention a connection between two recent posts, namely today’s post about moments and post from a few days ago about the Laplace transform. Let f(t) be a function on [0, ∞) and F(s) be the Laplace transform of f(t). Then the nth moment of f, is
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