Jump to content

Talk:Central moment

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Moment around the origin is never defined. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.142.141.195 (talkcontribs)

Relation to moments about the origin

[edit]

Enter n = 2

Expand

How is this equal to:

Also:

From the definition we have

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.144.94.32 (talk) 09:50, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Translation of the first central moment

[edit]

I removed this property that is not true: «  For n>1, the nth central moment is translation-invariant, i.e. for any random variable X and any constant c, we have:  »

See for example, the property under Moment_(mathematics)#Transformation_of_center.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Scharleb (talkcontribs) 13:16, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]