Keywords
statistics
life contingencies
Bernstein polynomials
Probabilidad
estadística
contingencias de vida
polinomios de Bernstein
How to Cite
Abstract
We present some known properties of bk(n, p) the kth inverse moment of a positive binomial variate. Additional properties of this function and new bounds are derived.
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