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The continuous growth of renewable energy and the load level has posed increasingly severe operational risks to distribution systems. In view of this, this paper combines state estimation with risk ...

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Sahil discussed the significance of statistical moments—mean, variance, and skew—in financial modeling. Using dice as an analogy, Sahil illustrated how normal distribution methods inform retail ...

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