Function File: [m, v] = expstat (l)

Compute mean and variance of the exponential distribution.

Arguments

• l is the parameter of the exponential distribution. The elements of l must be positive

Return values

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

Example

          l = 1:6;
          [m, v] = expstat (l)

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.