In current textbooks, the predominant approach to obtain the mixture distribution is based on marginalization of the joint distribution defined by the mixture model. This article proposes the use of ...

Addresses the topics of probability, random variables, discrete and continuous densities, expectation and variance, special distributions (binomial, Poisson, normal, etc.), moment generating functions ...

Moment generating function: A function that summarises all the moments of a probability distribution and is utilised to characterise its underlying properties.

In current textbooks, the predominant approach to obtain the mixture distribution is based on marginalization of the joint distribution defined by the mixture model. This article proposes the use of ...