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A symbolic method for k-statistics

Combinatorics 2007-06-13 v2 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

Trough the classical umbral calculus, we provide new, compact and easy to handle expressions of k-statistics, and more in general of U-statistics. In addition such a symbolic method can be naturally extended to multivariate case and to generalized k-statistics.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0505033,
  title  = {A symbolic method for k-statistics},
  author = {E. Di Nardo and D. Senato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0505033},
  year   = {2007}
}

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