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Volume 1 |Article ID 343067 | 7 pages | https://doi.org/10.1155/S1173912697000138

Classroom note: An inductive derivation of Stirling numbers of the second kind and their applications in statistics

Anwar H. Joarder1 and Munir Mahmood2

1Department of Mathematical Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia

2Department of Econometrics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Abstract

An inductive method has been presented for finding Stirling numbers of the second kind. Applications to some discrete probability distributions for finding higher order moments have been discussed.

Copyright © 1997 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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