central moment

It sits at a central moment in Jay’s life looking both forward and back.

At the central moment of Jewish history, women are invisible.

He didn't know yet that it was the central moment of his life. '

The way in which a host nation presents them has become the central moment of the opening ceremonies.

Two networks recall one of the central moments in 20th-century American history for its 50th anniversary.

He has missed the central moments on which the action pivots.

The higher order central moments can provide significant information about the behavior of the function .

The sign of its third central moment is determined by the difference (σ-σ).

To illustrate this, examine the following 4th-order central moment case:

Differently from the central moments, L-moments can be expressed in a closed form.

The skewness of can be determined from the third central moment .

The central moments of order up to 3 are:

And it is hard to foresee how the Gulf War could come to be thought of as a central moment in the nation's history.

A wonderful eruption of a volcano is the central moment of this act.

It was a central moment in the establishment of the Fifth Republic, which continues to this day.

The first central moment is thus 0.

Brian, the emcee, announced that the central moment of the weekend was due – the veterans’ honour dance.

This contrasts with the situation for central moments, whose computation uses up a degree of freedom by using the sample mean.

For random variables that have no mean, such as the Cauchy distribution, central moments are not defined.

The second central moment is the variance.

For example, the second central moment indicates the variance (), the degree of dispersion around the mean.

Sets of central moments can be defined for both univariate and multivariate distributions.

Information about image orientation can be derived by first using the second order central moments to construct a covariance matrix.

The notation μ means the third central moment.