Moment generating function

Moment-generating function - concept in probability theory and statistics. Article “Moment generating function” in English Wikipedia has 31.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.66 points.

This article has the best quality in Catalan Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Moment generating function” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Moment generating function”, its content was written by 116 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 460 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 207 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1131 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19377 in March 2003
• Global: #25822 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #28529 in October 2014
• Global: #43633 in October 2014

There are 25 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Catalan (ca) Funció generatriu de moments		45.49
2	German (de) Momenterzeugende Funktion		38.7978
3	Finnish (fi) Momenttifunktio		34.4373
4	English (en) Moment generating function		31.459
5	Hungarian (hu) Momentumgeneráló függvény		27.2366
6	Chinese (zh) 矩生成函數		22.5405
7	Czech (cs) Momentová vytvořující funkce		17.9227
8	Vietnamese (vi) Hàm sinh mô men		15.6539
9	Ukrainian (uk) Твірна функція моментів		11.1984
10	Persian (fa) تابع مولد گشتاور		11.1662

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Moment generating function" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Moment generating function		4 052 757
2	Chinese (zh) 矩生成函數		315 362
3	Spanish (es) Función generadora de momentos		297 963
4	German (de) Momenterzeugende Funktion		245 281
5	French (fr) Fonction génératrice des moments		224 162
6	Japanese (ja) 積率母関数		191 900
7	Italian (it) Funzione generatrice dei momenti		158 402
8	Russian (ru) Производящая функция моментов		150 158
9	Hebrew (he) פונקציה יוצרת מומנטים		79 897
10	Polish (pl) Funkcja tworząca momenty		79 384

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Moment generating function" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Moment generating function		5 996
2	Chinese (zh) 矩生成函數		571
3	French (fr) Fonction génératrice des moments		480
4	German (de) Momenterzeugende Funktion		389
5	Japanese (ja) 積率母関数		342
6	Spanish (es) Función generadora de momentos		332
7	Russian (ru) Производящая функция моментов		233
8	Polish (pl) Funkcja tworząca momenty		227
9	Italian (it) Funzione generatrice dei momenti		199
10	Hebrew (he) פונקציה יוצרת מומנטים		130

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Moment generating function" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Moment generating function		116
2	German (de) Momenterzeugende Funktion		57
3	French (fr) Fonction génératrice des moments		40
4	Dutch (nl) Momentgenererende functie		27
5	Hebrew (he) פונקציה יוצרת מומנטים		26
6	Chinese (zh) 矩生成函數		25
7	Russian (ru) Производящая функция моментов		24
8	Italian (it) Funzione generatrice dei momenti		23
9	Polish (pl) Funkcja tworząca momenty		17
10	Persian (fa) تابع مولد گشتاور		13

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Moment generating function" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Moment generating function		1
2	Vietnamese (vi) Hàm sinh mô men		1
3	Catalan (ca) Funció generatriu de moments		0
4	Czech (cs) Momentová vytvořující funkce		0
5	German (de) Momenterzeugende Funktion		0
6	Spanish (es) Función generadora de momentos		0
7	Basque (eu) Momentuen funtzio sortzaile		0
8	Persian (fa) تابع مولد گشتاور		0
9	Finnish (fi) Momenttifunktio		0
10	French (fr) Fonction génératrice des moments		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Moment generating function" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Moment generating function		207
2	Chinese (zh) 矩生成函數		101
3	Italian (it) Funzione generatrice dei momenti		80
4	French (fr) Fonction génératrice des moments		77
5	Japanese (ja) 積率母関数		60
6	Persian (fa) تابع مولد گشتاور		59
7	Ukrainian (uk) Твірна функція моментів		54
8	Catalan (ca) Funció generatriu de moments		52
9	Polish (pl) Funkcja tworząca momenty		52
10	German (de) Momenterzeugende Funktion		48

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Funció generatriu de moments
cs	Czech Momentová vytvořující funkce
de	German Momenterzeugende Funktion
en	English Moment generating function
es	Spanish Función generadora de momentos
eu	Basque Momentuen funtzio sortzaile
fa	Persian تابع مولد گشتاور
fi	Finnish Momenttifunktio
fr	French Fonction génératrice des moments
he	Hebrew פונקציה יוצרת מומנטים
hu	Hungarian Momentumgeneráló függvény
it	Italian Funzione generatrice dei momenti
ja	Japanese 積率母関数
ko	Korean 모멘트 생성 함수
la	Latin Functio momenta generans
nl	Dutch Momentgenererende functie
pl	Polish Funkcja tworząca momenty
ru	Russian Производящая функция моментов
sk	Slovak Momentová vytvárajúca funkcia
sl	Slovenian Funkcija generiranja momentov
sv	Swedish Momentgenererande funktion
tr	Turkish Moment çıkaran fonksiyon
uk	Ukrainian Твірна функція моментів
vi	Vietnamese Hàm sinh mô men
zh	Chinese 矩生成函數

Best Rank

English: #28529 10.2014

Global: #43633 10.2014

Best Rank

English: #19377 03.2003

Global: #25822 03.2003

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