Central moments for ungrouped data

Let $x_1,x_2,\cdots, x_n$ be $n$ observations. The mean of $X$ is denoted by $\overline{x}$ and is given by $$ \begin{eqnarray*} \overline{x}& =\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}x_i \end{eqnarray*} $$

Formula

The first four central moments are as follows

$m_1=0$

$m_2 =\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n (x_i-\overline{x})^2$

$m_3 =\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n (x_i-\overline{x})^3$

$m_4 =\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n (x_i-\overline{x})^4$

where,

  • $n$ total number of observations
  • $\overline{x}$ sample mean

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