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Meaning of kurtosis

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kurtosis

noun

Definitions

  1. A measure of "heaviness of the tails" of a probability distribution, defined as the fourth cumulant divided by the square of the variance of the probability distribution.

  2. Excess kurtosis: the difference between a given distribution's kurtosis and the kurtosis of a normal distribution.