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Example of The Moment Generating Function

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Steve Brunton 68 tutorials here
Mathematics

Here we compute the moment generating function for a simple Poisson distribution. This example demonstrates the mechanics of how this might be computed for other distributions.

This video was produced at the University of Washington, and we acknowledge funding support from the Boeing Company

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00:00 Intro
01:27 Proof of MGF relation to Moments
05:55 Example Moment Derivations: Poisson
09:23 Outro