Moments of a Distribution

Moments are quantitative measures of a distribution function. Formally, the nth moment about a value c of a distribution f(x) is defined as

μn=E[(xc)n]={(xc)nf(x)Discrete distibution(xc)nf(x)dxContinuous distribution}.

When c = 0, they are called the raw moments, and when c is set at the mean of the distributions, ...

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