Integral transforms, operational calculus Moment problems Counterexample
Moments of the log-normal distribution
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Counterexample
Let be the density of the standard log-normal distribution: Its moments are for every integer . For a real number with , put Each is a probability density, because and it has the same total mass as by the computation below. Check that has the same moments as . It suffices to show for every integer . The substitution turns this integral into , where is the standard normal density. Since , the substitution gives because is an integer and the last integrand is odd. So the densities , , are pairwise different and all have the moments . Hence the moment problem for this moment sequence is not determinate: it is indeterminate.
Remarks
The log-normal law has all moments finite, yet its moments do not determine it. The moments grow like , so fast that Carleman's condition fails. The normal distribution, whose moments grow much more slowly, is determined by its moments.
Reading path
To understand this page from the ground up, read these 48 pages in order. The foundations come first.
- Construction of the reals from Cauchy sequences concept
- Element definition
- Integers object
- Moment concept
- Moment-generating function concept
- Normal distribution concept
- Ordered field definition
- Probability density function concept
- Proposition concept
- Random experiment concept
- Rational numbers object
- Real numbers object
- Set definition
- Ring of integers statement
- Log-normal distribution example
- Disjunction definition
- Implication definition
- Predicate definition
- Ordered pair definition
- Union definition
- Sample space definition
- Existential quantifier definition
- Universal quantifier definition
- The rationals form a field statement
- Cartesian product definition
- Subset definition
- Uniqueness quantifier definition
- The rationals form an ordered field statement
- Binary relation definition
- Universal set definition
- Power set definition
- Order on the reals definition
- Complement definition
- Function definition
- Interval definition
- Sigma-algebra definition
- Preimage of a set definition
- Event definition
- Borel sigma-algebra definition
- Probability axioms concept
- Probability measure definition
- Probability distribution definition
- Probability space definition
- Random variable definition
- Cumulative distribution function definition
- Random variable with a density definition
- Probability density function definition
- Moments of the log-normal distribution counterexample
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| Tag | P3PZ73SMPZ |
|---|---|
| URI | m2://P3PZ73SMPZ |
| Kind | counterexample |
| Writing | W0 stub |
| MSC | 44A60, 60E05 |
| Uses | Log-normal distribution, Moment, Probability density function, Normal distribution |
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