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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2015 Prelims Mathematics III 5 b iii Solution by
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Substitute into the polynomial identity and apply linearity of expectation to its finite sum. The factorial moments of the Poisson distribution in part (a)(iv) are all one, givingThus its th moment counts set partitions: it equals the th Bell number.
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