Hyper-exponential Distribution - Properties of The Hyper-exponential Distribution

Properties of The Hyper-exponential Distribution

Since the expected value of a sum is the sum of the expected values, the expected value of a hyper-exponential random variable can be shown as

and

from which we can derive the variance.

The moment-generating function is given by

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