Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge / 2017 / Paper 1 / 16 / c / iii

The same integration by substitution gives the expected valueThe remaining integrand is an odd function. Its integral is absolutely convergent, since ${\mathrm{sech}}^{2}t\le 4e^{-2|t|}$ and $|t|e^{-2|t|}$ is integrable. Thus cancellation under symmetry in integration is legitimate, rather than merely a principal-value calculation. ConsequentlyEquivalently, the logistic distribution is symmetric about $\mu$, and its exponentially decaying tails ensure that its expected value exists.