Kurtosis. Kurtosis is a statistical measure that defines how heavily the tails of a distribution differ from the tails of a normal distribution. In other words kurtosis identifies whether the tails of a given distribution contain extreme values.
In other words kurtosis identifies whether the tails of a given distribution contain extreme values. There are three types of kurtosis. Kurtosis is a statistical measure that defines how heavily the tails of a distribution differ from the tails of a normal distribution.
The degree of tailedness of a distribution is measured by kurtosis.
There are three types of kurtosis. The peak is the tallest part of the distribution and the tails are the ends of the distribution. Kurtosis is defined as a normalized form of the fourth central moment of a distribution. The degree of tailedness of a distribution is measured by kurtosis.
