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statistical measure > kurtosis

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kurtosis  

Definition

  • [RO] Kurtosis is a measure of how outlier-prone a distribution is. The kurtosis of the normal distribution is 3. Distributions that are more outlier-prone than the normal distribution have kurtosis greater than 3; distributions that are less outlier-prone have kurtosis less than 3

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  • nsb@ceh.ac.uk

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http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/10138

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