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Moment

The kth moment of a list is the average value of the elements raised to the kth power; that is, if the list consists of the N elements x1, x2, … , xN, the kth moment of the list is

( x1k + x2k + xNk )/N.

The kth moment of a random variable X is the expected value of Xk, E(Xk).

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