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:::: Ah, well the connection between the two wasn't spelled out to the satisfaction of my (possibly caffeine-deprived) mind. And, as far as I can tell, the online algorithm does not easily merge statistics from multiple populations, but rather updates the statistic one sample at a time. Correct me if I am wrong, or please add a suitable method to the page. [[Special:Contributions/209.237.23.36|209.237.23.36]] ([[User talk:209.237.23.36|talk]]) 22:56, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
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The numerically stable mean and variance computation works, but attempting something similar for skewness and kurtosis using the incremental moments computation code in the later section seems to fail. I may be I am missing something .. [[User:Shyamal|Shyamal]] ([[User talk:Shyamal|talk]]) 16:17, 14 July 2009 (UTC)