Look up: kurtosis

1. Kurtosis
   Is the statistic which describes the degree of peakedness or flatness of a probability distribution relative to the benchmark normal distribution. See Leptokurtic (Leptokurtosis) and Platykurtic (Platykurtosis).
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2. Kurtosis
   An expression of the so-called 'fourth moment'. A tendency for a distribution to form a sharp narrow peak in the center (or, when negative, a broad flat plateau). It is a unitless parameter. If the value is positive it indicates that the distribution of the signal has longer tails than the Gaussian ...
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3. kurtosis
   a term used to describe the extent to which a unimodal frequency curve is 'peaked'; that is to say, the extent of the relative steepness of ascent in the neighbourhood of the mode Category: Mathematics
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4. kurtosis
   The extent to which a unimodal distribution is peaked. ... Origin: G., an arching ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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5. kurtosis
   An attribute of a distribution, describing 'peakedness'. Kurtosis is calculated as E[(x-mu)⁴]/s⁴ where mu is the mean and s is the standard deviation. Source: Hogg and Craig, p 57 Contexts: econometrics; statistics
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6. kurtosis
   (kәr-to´sis) the degree of peakedness or flatness of a probability distribution as compared to the normal distribution having the same variance.
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7. kurtosis
   (from the article `sedimentary rock`) ...in grain size, (5) skewness, the degree of symmetry or asymmetry of the grain-size distribution, which is in turn a function of the coincidence or ...
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8. kurtosis
   Type: Term Pronunciation: kŭr-tō′sis Definitions: 1. The extent to which a unimodal distribution is peaked.
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9. Kurtosis
   Is the statistic which describes the degree of peakedness or flatness of a probability distribution relative to the benchmark normal distribution. See Leptokurtic (Leptokurtosis) and Platykurtic (Platykurtosis).
   Found on http://www.oasismanagement.com/glossary/
   
   
10. Kurtosis
    In probability theory and statistics, `kurtosis` (from the Greek word κυρτός, kyrtos or kurtos, meaning bulging) is a measure of the "peakedness" of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable, although some sources are insistent that he...
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