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Statistical Glossary

Moments:

For a random variable x, its Nth moment is the expected value of the Nth power of x, where N is a positive integer. The Nth moment of the deviation of x from its mean is called "the Nth central moment".

The 1st moment is the mean, the 2nd central moment is the variance.

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