Rahul Pandare

Rahul Pandare

He/Him

Ph.D., Noneq. Stat. Phys.

Statistical Moments: Mean, Variance, Skweness and Kurtosis

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Looking at distributions is a daily part of the job for many including me. Here I explain the statistical moments and what they actually `mean’ (no pun indented). Charecterisng a distribution using statistical measures gives us insight on the data; how does the curve look like?, what’s the spread?, symetric or not?, how skewed it is?, markers for multimodality.

📄 Read the report here: statistical_moments.pdf

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