Unbiased Estimates for Products of Moments and Cumulants for Finite Populations
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Products of Noncentral Moments
3. Products of Powers of the Mean and Central Moments and the Inversion Principle
4. Multivariate Extensions
5. UEs of Products of Central Moments
6. UEs of Products of Cumulants
7. Proof of the Inversion Principles
8. Symmetric Functions and Eigenfunctions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Withers, C.S.; Nadarajah, S. Unbiased Estimates for Products of Moments and Cumulants for Finite Populations. Mathematics 2023, 11, 3720. https://doi.org/10.3390/math11173720
Withers CS, Nadarajah S. Unbiased Estimates for Products of Moments and Cumulants for Finite Populations. Mathematics. 2023; 11(17):3720. https://doi.org/10.3390/math11173720
Chicago/Turabian StyleWithers, Christopher S., and Saralees Nadarajah. 2023. "Unbiased Estimates for Products of Moments and Cumulants for Finite Populations" Mathematics 11, no. 17: 3720. https://doi.org/10.3390/math11173720