Cumulant/Examples/Variance
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Example of Cumulant
The second cumulant $\kappa_2$ of a moment generating function is the variance.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cumulant
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cumulant