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Noun

kurtosis ‎(plural kurtoses or kurtosises)

1. (statistics) 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.

Related terms

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

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