We provide a methodology to calculate the expectation of a variate x in terms of the moments of a transformation of x. Apart from the intrinsic interest in such a fundamental relation that relates the moments of a variate and its nonlinear transformations, our results can be used in practice to...

We derive expansions of E(x) in terms of the moments of a transformation of x, in a more general context than Taylor expansions. Apart from the intrinsic interest in such a fundamental relation that links the moments of a variate and its nonlinear transformations, our results can be used in...