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value of any general non-linear function as a Taylor series expansion of the moments, as follows:

where is the mean value of .

where is the n-th moment of about its mean. Note that by their definition, and . The first order term always vanishes but was kept to obtain a closed form expression.

Then,

where the Taylor expansion is truncated after the -th moment.

Particularly for functions of normal random variables,

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