Advances in Decision Sciences
Volume 1 (1997), Issue 2, Pages 151-157
doi:10.1155/S1173912697000138
An inductive derivation of Stirling numbers of the second kind and their applications in statistics
Anwar H. Joarder1
and Munir Mahmood2
1Department of Mathematical Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
2Department of Econometrics, Monash University, Clayton 3168, Victoria, Australia
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.