kurtosis
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[edit] Etymology
From Ancient Greek κύρτωσις (“bulging, convexity”), from κυρτός (kurtos, “bulging”).
[edit] Noun
kurtosis (plural kurtoses)
- (statistics) A measure of "peakedness" of a probability distribution, defined as the fourth cumulant divided by the square of the variance of the probability distribution.
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measure of "peakedness"
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