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Definition of Kurtosis
1. Noun. (statistics) A measure of "peakedness" of a probability distribution, defined as the fourth cumulant divided by the square of the variance of the probability distribution. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kurtosis
1. the relative degree of curvature in a statistical curve [n -TOSISES or -TOSES]
Medical Definition of Kurtosis
1. The extent to which a unimodal distribution is peaked. Origin: G., an arching (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kurtosis
Literary usage of Kurtosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pricing Behavior in Philippine Corn Markets: Implications for Market Efficiency by Meyra Sebello Mendoza, Mark W. Rosegrant (1995)
"Relative kurtosis of monthly prices of yellow corn at wholesale across the major
corn-producing regions including Manila are negative, indicating a ..."
2. Stochastic Inequalities by Moshe Shaked, Yung Liang Tong (1992)
"Analogous kurtosis orderings are also discussed. Here the role of convex and
Lorenz orderings appears more ... What is kurtosis? This is a bit harder. ..."
3. Base SAS(R) 9.1.3 Procedures Guide, Second Edition, Volumes 1-4 by Sas Institute (2006)
"kurtosis The heaviness of the tails of a distribution affects the behavior of
many statistics. ... One such measure is kurtosis. The population kurtosis is ..."
4. L1-statistical Procedures and Related Topics by Yadolah Dodge (1997)
"The return distribution for this model has kurtosis KrA =3(1 + I/A). 5 Analysis
of major world market indexes The empirical analysis will be ..."
5. Comparing Drug Use Rates of Detained Arrestees in the United States and England by Bruce Taylor, Trevor Bennett (1999)
"Normal distributions will have values for skewness and kurtosis that are close
to zero. See Norusis, M., SPSS for Windows-Base System User's Guide, ..."
6. Sas/stat 9.1 User's Guide by SAS Institute, Virginia Clark (2004)
"kurtosis I KU computes and displays univariate kurtosis and skewness, various
coefficients of multivariate kurtosis, and the numbers of observations that ..."
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