Second partial moment of the Gamma pdf

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I would like to rewrite the following integral in terms of the (incomplete) Gamma function:

$$\int_r^\infty (x-r)^2f(x;k,\theta)\,dx$$

where $f(x;k,\theta)$ is the Gamma probability density function for $x>0$ and $k,\,\theta>0$.

I can rewrite this to

$$\int_r^\infty x^2 f(x;k,\theta) \, dx-2\int_r^\infty x f(x;k,\theta) \, dx+r^2\int_r^\infty f(x;k,\theta) \, dx$$

But this is as far as I currently get.

Can somebody help me out? Thanks!

Edit:

I found out that

$$r^2\int_r^\infty f(x;k,\theta) \, dx \, = \,r^2\big(1-F(x;k,\theta) \big)\,=\,r^2\bigg(1-\frac{\gamma(x;k,\theta)}{\Gamma(k)}\bigg)$$

But what about the other terms? Thanks!

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You can express

$$\int_r^\infty (x-r)^2f(x;k,\theta)\,dx$$

as:

$$r^2\left[1-F(r, k, \theta)\right]-\frac{2rk}{\theta}\left[1-F(r, k+1, \theta)\right] + \frac{k(k+1)}{\theta^2 }\left[1-F(r, k+2, \theta)\right]$$

, where $F(.)$ is the cdf of the Gamma distribution which can be expressed with the Gamma function.