Fourth centered moment of a binomial distribution

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Fourth centered moment of a binomial distribution by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-10-14
For , expand the fourth power of the sum of centered independent Bernoulli variables. Terms with an index occurring once vanish; single-index fourth moments contribute and paired second moments contribute . Their sum is the displayed formula. Scaling by yields a uniform fourth moment for .

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