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Moments of Student's t-distribution: A Unified Approach

Probability 2024-12-18 v3 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

In this note, we derive the closed form formulae for moments of Student's t-distribution in the one dimensional case as well as in higher dimensions through a unified probability framework. Interestingly, the closed form expressions for the moments of Student's t-distribution can be written in terms of the familiar Gamma function, Kummer's confluent hypergeometric function, and the hypergeometric function.

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@article{arxiv.1912.01607,
  title  = {Moments of Student's t-distribution: A Unified Approach},
  author = {J. Lars Kirkby and Dang Nguyen and Duy Nguyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.01607},
  year   = {2024}
}

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corrected two typos