##  [Central Moment](/central-moment) 

  ##  [Central Moment](https://natural.quantumdictionary.io/central-moment-0) 

  

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Definition

The expectation of the k-th power of deviations from the mean, E[(X − E[X])^k], measuring distributional shape around the mean; the second central moment is variance.