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First moments of the truncated and absolute Student's variates

Statistics Theory 2014-03-12 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

While some of the enclosed already is a well-known derivation, and the remaining may have been obtained in earlier publications, this note computes the first two moments of a Student's variate truncated at zero and of an absolute (or folded) Student's variate.

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@article{arxiv.1111.6110,
  title  = {First moments of the truncated and absolute Student's variates},
  author = {Christian P. Robert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.6110},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, corrections on the variance formula thanks to Dr. Piero Foscari