The workbench / The reference library
Suggest a wordMy library
The vocabulary collection

kurtosis.

Noun
Academic
MEANING

A measure of how heavy or light a distribution’s tails are relative to those of a normal distribution.

Use it for

On the page

The datasets had similar means but different kurtosis because one contained more extreme values.

Nearby words

Related words

Word forms
Base
kurtosis

Explore related collections

Practice this word in a sentence

Your margin notes

Keep a thought for later. Sign in to save privately.