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Output central moments and include them within the set of final statistics.

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): none

## Description

Output central moments (mean, variance, 3rd central, and 4th central) and include the first two within the set of final statistics to be used at a higher level (e.g., optimization under uncertainty, mixed aleatory-epistemic UQ). This inclusion of moment results affects the primary and/or secondary response mappings in a nested model specificaton.

## Examples

The following method specification overrides the default to print `central` moments and include them in the set of final statistics.

    method,
      sampling
        samples = 50 seed = 1234
        response_levels = 3.6e+11 1.2e+05 3.5e+05
        final_moments central