Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences
Volume 1 (1997), Issue 2, Pages 151-157
doi:10.1155/S1173912697000138
Classroom note: An inductive derivation of Stirling numbers of
the second kind and their applications in statistics
1Department of Mathematical Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
2Department of Econometrics, Monash University, Clayton 3168, Victoria, Australia
Copyright © 1997 Anwar H. Joarder and Munir Mahmood. 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.
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.