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Categories: Moment (physics), Moment (mathematics)
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moment  higher moments  Moment of a distribution  moment of a function  raw moment
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The n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value WordNet 3.0
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The n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In mathematics, the moments of a function are certain quantitative measures related to the shape of the function's graph. Wikipedia
A concept in probability theory and statistics Wikipedia Disambiguation
In mathematics, a quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points Wikidata
A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points. Wiktionary
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If the points represent mass, then the zeroth moment is the total mass, the first moment divided by the total mass is the center of mass, and the second moment is the rotational inertia. Wiktionary