• DocumentCode
    944113
  • Title

    Comments on uniqueness of statistics derived from moments of random variables

  • Author

    de Wolf, David A.

  • Author_Institution
    RCA Laboratories, Princeton, N. J.
  • Volume
    64
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1976
  • fDate
    3/1/1976 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    371
  • Lastpage
    372
  • Abstract
    Electrical engineers and physicists are often confronted with the problem of finding a probability density of a random variable (e.g., a noisy signal) from its moments. Some sources of apparent confusion in deciding whether the distribution is uniquely determined are discussed.
  • Keywords
    Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Optimal control; Physics; Power system control; Power system modeling; Power systems; Probability; Random variables; Refractive index; Statistics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9219
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/PROC.1976.10124
  • Filename
    1454393