Talk:Higher-order statistics
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It is odd to say that the mean, variance, skewness, and kurtosis of a probability distribution are statistics. As normally defined, the sample mean and sample variance are statistics; the population mean and population variance are not. Michael Hardy (talk) 03:50, 27 November 2009 (UTC)