Moment-generating function

Moment-generating function - concept in probability theory and statistics. Article “Moment-generating function” in English Wikipedia has 30.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.62 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Moment-generating function”, its content was written by 113 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 453 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 193 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1108 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19383 in March 2003
• Global: #25823 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #28326 in October 2014
• Global: #42618 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, 2025 (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		44.2226
2	German (de) Momenterzeugende Funktion		39.386
3	Finnish (fi) Momenttifunktio		34.5499
4	English (en) Moment-generating function		30.7309
5	Hungarian (hu) Momentumgeneráló függvény		27.2504
6	Chinese (zh) 矩生成函數		22.5696
7	Czech (cs) Momentová vytvořující funkce		18.0558
8	Vietnamese (vi) Hàm sinh mô men		15.683
9	Ukrainian (uk) Твірна функція моментів		12.972
10	Persian (fa) تابع مولد گشتاور		11.1908

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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		3 924 113
2	Chinese (zh) 矩生成函數		304 608
3	Spanish (es) Función generadora de momentos		291 323
4	German (de) Momenterzeugende Funktion		239 743
5	French (fr) Fonction génératrice des moments		215 663
6	Japanese (ja) 積率母関数		187 284
7	Italian (it) Funzione generatrice dei momenti		155 226
8	Russian (ru) Производящая функция моментов		142 404
9	Hebrew (he) פונקציה יוצרת מומנטים		77 638
10	Polish (pl) Funkcja tworząca momenty		77 252

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Moment-generating function		10 666
2	Chinese (zh) 矩生成函數		922
3	Spanish (es) Función generadora de momentos		730
4	French (fr) Fonction génératrice des moments		664
5	German (de) Momenterzeugende Funktion		656
6	Japanese (ja) 積率母関数		626
7	Italian (it) Funzione generatrice dei momenti		383
8	Russian (ru) Производящая функция моментов		368
9	Hebrew (he) פונקציה יוצרת מומנטים		306
10	Polish (pl) Funkcja tworząca momenty		218

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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		113
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 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Funció generatriu de moments		1
2	German (de) Momenterzeugende Funktion		1
3	Finnish (fi) Momenttifunktio		1
4	Czech (cs) Momentová vytvořující funkce		0
5	English (en) Moment-generating function		0
6	Spanish (es) Función generadora de momentos		0
7	Basque (eu) Momentuen funtzio sortzaile		0
8	Persian (fa) تابع مولد گشتاور		0
9	French (fr) Fonction génératrice des moments		0
10	Hebrew (he) פונקציה יוצרת מומנטים		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		193
2	Chinese (zh) 矩生成函數		102
3	French (fr) Fonction génératrice des moments		77
4	Italian (it) Funzione generatrice dei momenti		77
5	Persian (fa) تابع مولد گشتاور		60
6	Japanese (ja) 積率母関数		56
7	Catalan (ca) Funció generatriu de moments		52
8	Polish (pl) Funkcja tworząca momenty		52
9	Ukrainian (uk) Твірна функція моментів		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: #28326 10.2014

Global: #42618 10.2014

Best Rank

English: #19383 03.2003

Global: #25823 03.2003

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