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kurtosis

kurtosis Kurtosis is a statistical measure of how heavy or light the tails of a distribution are compared with a normal distribution.

Kurtosis is a statistical measure of how heavy or light the tails of a distribution are compared with a normal distribution. Distributions with longer tails are called leptokurtic, those with shorter tails are called platykurtic, and a normal distribution has zero kurtosis.