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arxiv: 0807.3392 · v1 · submitted 2008-07-22 · 🧮 math.ST · stat.TH

The converse to Curtiss' theorem for one-sided moment generating functions

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keywords generatingmomentfunctionscharekaconditionscontainingconvergeconverse
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A set of necessary and sufficient conditions for a sequence of moment generating functions to converge to a moment generating function on an interval (a,b) not necessarily containing 0, is given. The result is derived using recent results by Mukherjea, et al. (2006) and Chareka (2007).

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