Mathematical Institute, Warsaw University of Technology, Plac Politechniki 1, 00-661 Warsaw, Poland ; Mathematical Institute, Warsaw University of Technology, Plac Politechniki 1, 00-661 Warsaw, Poland
Abstract:
Asymptotic expansions of any order for expectations of inverses of random variables with positive binomial and negative binomial distributions are obtained in terms of the Eulerian polynomials. The paper extends and improves upon an expansion due to David and Johnson (1956-7).