In dictionaries:
moment generating function
Expected value of exponential function.
exponential generating function
(mathematics) A formal power series with one indeterminate, whose coefficients are fractions with factorial denominators (of index corresponding to the power of the indeterminate) and numerators which represent a sequence of numbers that is to be studied.
ordinary generating function
Generating function transformation
In mathematics, a transformation of a sequence's generating function provides a method of converting the generating function for one sequence into a generating function enumerating another.
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