Moments and Moment Generating Function of the Exponential Distribution

Description

Raw moments, limited moments and moment generating function for the exponential distribution with rate rate (i.e., mean 1/rate).

Usage

mexp(order, rate = 1)
levexp(limit, rate = 1, order = 1)
mgfexp(x, rate = 1, log = FALSE)

Arguments

Details

The kth raw moment of the random variable X is E[X^k], the kth limited moment at some limit d is E[min(X, d)^k] and the moment generating function is E[e^{xX}].

Value

mexp gives the kth raw moment, levexp gives the kth moment of the limited loss variable, and mgfexp gives the moment generating function in x.
Invalid arguments will result in return value NaN, with a warning.

Author(s)

Vincent Goulet vincent.goulet@act.ulaval.ca, Christophe Dutang and Mathieu Pigeon.

References

Klugman, S. A., Panjer, H. H. and Willmot, G. E. (2004), Loss Models, From Data to Decisions, Second Edition, Wiley.

Johnson, N. L. and Kotz, S. (1970), Continuous univariate distributions, Volume 1, Wiley.

See Also

Exponential

Examples

mexp(2, 3) - mexp(1, 3)^2
levexp(10, 3, order = 2)
mgfexp(1,2)