kurtosis

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Pronunciation

/kəˈtəʊ.sɪs/

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/kəˈtəʊ.sɪs/ · /ˌkɜːˈtəʊ.sɪs/ · /kɚˈtoʊ.sɪs/ · /ˌkɝˈtoʊ.sɪs/ · /kəˈtəʉ.sɪs/ · /kəˈtɐʉ.sɪs/ · /ˌkɜːˈtəʉ.sɪs/ · /ˌkɜːˈtɐʉ.sɪs/

Definition of kurtosis

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, uncountable)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.

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noun

(countable, uncountable)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.
(countable, uncountable)Excess kurtosis: the difference between a given distribution's kurtosis and the kurtosis of a normal distribution.

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Etymology

Coined by English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist Karl Pearson c. 1895 (published 1899 in "On certain Properties of the Hypergeometrical Series, and so on the fitting of such series to Observation Polygons in the Theory of Chance", Phil. Mag.). From Ancient Greek κύρτωσις (kúrtōsis, “a bulging, convexity”), from κυρτός (kurtós, “bulging, convex”).

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