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platykurtic

platykurtic Platykurtic describes a distribution whose tails are shorter than those of a normal distribution.

Platykurtic describes a distribution whose tails are shorter than those of a normal distribution. It is a term used in research methods and statistics to describe the shape of a distribution.

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