kurtosis

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύρτωσις (“bulging, convexity”), from κυρτός (kurtos, “bulging”).

Noun

kurtosis (plural kurtoses)

1. (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.

Related terms

• leptokurtosis
• mesokurtosis
• platykurtosis
• excess kurtosis
• mesokurtic
• leptokurtic
• platykurtic

Translations

measure of "peakedness"

• Czech: špičatost (cs) f, koeficient špičatosti (cs) m
• Finnish: huipukkuus (fi), kurtoosi (fi)

• French: kurtosis (fr) m, coefficient d'aplatissement (fr) m