On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Ed Schofield apparently wrote: > I can't think of anything better than 'biased'. 'Sample' > would be ambiguous, as Zachary mentioned. Using > 'unbiased' in the names would be incorrect for std, as > Zachary also mentioned 'central'? http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SampleCentralMoment.html fwiw, Alan Isaac