Function File: [m, v] = geostat (p)

Compute mean and variance of the geometric distribution.

Arguments

• p is the rate parameter of the geometric distribution. The elements of p must be probabilities

Return values

• m is the mean of the geometric distribution
• v is the variance of the geometric distribution

Example

p = 1 ./ (1:6);
[m, v] = geostat (p)

References

1. Wendy L. Martinez and Angel R. Martinez. Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB. Appendix E, pages 547-557, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2001.
2. Athanasios Papoulis. Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes. McGraw-Hill, New York, second edition, 1984.

Package: statistics