Computing the average, standard deviation, and higher moments of a distribution

In order to understand the way in which we can extract the average of a distribution, let us go through the following scenario.

How to do it...

We will initialize a normal distribution with a given average and standard deviation. Once initialized, we will consider the output that we should be expecting.

Initializing a normal distribution

A normal variable with a given mean and standard deviation can be initialized by using the rvs function in scipy.stats.norm:

1. Import the relevant packages:

from scipy import stats

2. Initialize a variable with a given mean and standard distribution:

x = stats.norm.rvs(loc=3, scale=2, size=(1000))

In the preceding...