Meaning Of The Word Kurtosis

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What's The Definition Of Kurtosis?

kurtosis in American English
the degree of peakedness of the graph of a statistical distribution, indicative of the concentration around the mean
noun: the state or quality of flatness or peakedness of the curve describing a frequency distribution in the region about its mode

kurtosis in British English
noun: a measure of the concentration of a distribution around its mean, esp the statistic B2 = m4/m22 where m2 and m4 are respectively the second and fourth moment of the distribution around the mean. In a normal distribution B2 = 3

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