A numerical method is presented for calculating the cumulative distribution of a positive random variable from its moment-generating function. It involves an expansion of the rectangular function in Laguerre functions. As examples, the cumulative exponential and cumulative Poisson probability functions are approximated.
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Carl W. Helstrom (1969) studied this question.
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