1Blurb::
2Output moments of the specified type and include them within the set of final statistics.
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4Description::
5When performing a nested study that may employ moment statistics on the inner loop, it can be desirable to control the type of these moments.  The \c final_moments specification supports options of \c none, \c standard (default), or \c central, corresponding to omission of moments, standardized moments (mean, standard deviation, skewness, and excess kurtosis), or central moments (mean, variance, 3rd central, and 4th central).
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7The presence or omission of moment results in the final statistics influences the outer level mappings in the case of a nested study.  For example, \c final_moments \c none can allow for a more compact specification of primary and/or secondary response mappings.
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12The following method specification overrides the default to print \c central moments and include them in the set of final statistics.
13\verbatim
14method,
15  sampling
16    samples = 50 seed = 1234
17    response_levels = 3.6e+11 1.2e+05 3.5e+05
18    final_moments central
19\endverbatim
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21Overriding the default to \c none as follows:
22\verbatim
23method,
24  sampling
25    samples = 50 seed = 1234
26    response_levels = 3.6e+11 1.2e+05 3.5e+05
27    final_moments none
28\endverbatim
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30allows associated nested model mappings to be simplified from:
31\verbatim
32model
33  nested
34    sub_method_pointer = 'UQ'
35    primary_response_mapping   = 0. 0. 1. 0. 0. 1. 0. 0. 0.
36    secondary_response_mapping = 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 1.
37\endverbatim
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39to a more compact version focused only on the response level mappings (two
40leading zeros per response function for moment mappings have been removed):
41\verbatim
42model
43  nested
44    sub_method_pointer = 'UQ'
45    primary_response_mapping   = 1. 1. 0.
46    secondary_response_mapping = 0. 0. 1.
47\endverbatim
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