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Practical limits on the size of most probabilistic models require that probability distributions be approximated by a few representative values and associated probabilities. This paper demonstrates that methods commonly used to determine discrete approximations of probability distributions systematically underestimate the moments of the original distribution. A new procedure based on gaussian quadrature is developed in this paper. It can be used to decrease the error in the approximation to any desired level.
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