On raw moments of the binomial distribution

Abstract

We study the $k$:th raw moment of a variable $R$ following the binomial distribution $\text{B}(n,p)$, where $n/k\to \beta >0$. It is known that $\mathbb{E}(R^k)$ is bounded both from below and from above by functions of the form $k^k{\Psi }^k$. We solve the asymptotically optimal value of $\Psi$ as a function of $p$ and $\beta$.

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