kurtosis
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sɪs noun Statistics.
the state or quality of flatness or peakedness of the curve describing a frequency distribution in the region about its mode.
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| statistics platykurtic mesokurtic See also leptokurtic Compare skewness a measure of the concentration of a distribution around its mean, esp the statistic B2 = m4/m2² where m2 and m4 are respectively the second and fourth moment of the distribution around the mean. In a normal distribution B2 = 3 | |
| [from Greek: curvature, from kurtos arched] | |
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Kurtosis
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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| kurtosis (kər-tō'sĭs) Pronunciation Key
The general form or a quantity indicative of the general form of a statistical frequency curve near the mean of the distribution. |
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Example sentences
Kurtosis is a measure of the peakedness of the distribution.
There is a kurtosis measure, a fourth moment as standard deviation is a second moment, for this variation.
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