SECOND MOMENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from the point of origin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("second moment" is a kind of...):

moment (the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

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