Perhaps the clearest and simplest introduction to the Exponential Function and its practical implications for the human species can be found in the lectures of Albert Bartlett, Emeritus Professor ...

This paper provides a numerical technique for determining the parameters in a model expressible as the sum of exponentials. The essence of the method is to rewrite the model so that after ...

The normal, Poisson, gamma, binomial, and negative binomial distributions are univariate natural exponential families with quadratic variance functions (the variance is at most a quadratic function of ...

A Course of Modem Analysis: an Introduction to the General Theory of Infinite Processes and of Analytic Functions; with an Account of the Principal Transcendental Functions.