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Re: How to find expected value?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg66246] Re: How to find expected value?
• From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
• Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 05:02:51 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On 5/4/06 at 5:20 AM, chris.chiasson at gmail.com (Chris Chiasson)
wrote:

>It seems like you are trying to compute the expected value of a
>continuous distribution, while ExpectedValue is only defined for
>finite discrete distributions.

It is not correct to say ExpectedValue is only defined for discrete distributions. For example, you can compute the mean of say a gamma distribution as follows:

In[1]:=
<<Statistics`;
ExpectedValue[x,GammaDistribution[a,b],x]

Out[2]=
a b

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