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  2. Method of moments (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, the method of moments is a method of estimation of population parameters.The same principle is used to derive higher moments like skewness and kurtosis. It starts by expressing the population moments (i.e., the expected values of powers of the random variable under consideration) as functions of the parameters of interest.

  3. Generalized method of moments - Wikipedia

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    In econometrics and statistics, the generalized method of moments (GMM) is a generic method for estimating parameters in statistical models.Usually it is applied in the context of semiparametric models, where the parameter of interest is finite-dimensional, whereas the full shape of the data's distribution function may not be known, and therefore maximum likelihood estimation is not applicable.

  4. L-moment - Wikipedia

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    To derive estimators for the parameters of probability distributions, applying the method of moments to the L-moments rather than conventional moments. In addition to doing these with standard moments, the latter (estimation) is more commonly done using maximum likelihood methods; however using L-moments provides a number of advantages.

  5. Moment-generating function - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory and statistics, the moment-generating function of a real-valued random variable is an alternative specification of its probability distribution.Thus, it provides the basis of an alternative route to analytical results compared with working directly with probability density functions or cumulative distribution functions.

  6. Method of moments - Wikipedia

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    Method of moments (electromagnetics), a numerical method in electromagnetics, also referred to as boundary element method in other fields; Method of moments (statistics), a method of parameter estimation in statistics; Method of moments (probability theory), a way of proving convergence in distribution in probability theory; Second moment ...

  7. Estimating equations - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, the method of estimating equations is a way of specifying how the parameters of a statistical model should be estimated.This can be thought of as a generalisation of many classical methods—the method of moments, least squares, and maximum likelihood—as well as some recent methods like M-estimators.

  8. Taylor expansions for the moments of functions of random ...

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    In probability theory, it is possible to approximate the moments of a function f of a random variable X using Taylor expansions, provided that f is sufficiently differentiable and that the moments of X are finite. A simulation-based alternative to this approximation is the application of Monte Carlo simulations.

  9. Boundary element method - Wikipedia

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    The boundary element method (BEM) is a numerical computational method of solving linear partial differential equations which have been formulated as integral equations (i.e. in boundary integral form), including fluid mechanics, acoustics, electromagnetics (where the technique is known as method of moments or abbreviated as MoM), [1] fracture mechanics, [2] and contact mechanics.