different between leptokurtosis vs kurtosis
leptokurtosis
English
Etymology
lepto- +? kurtosis
Noun
leptokurtosis (uncountable)
- (statistics) The property of having kurtosis greater than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having positive excess kurtosis.
Synonyms
- (positive kurtosis): fat tail, heavy tail
Antonyms
- platykurtosis
Related terms
- kurtosis
- leptokurtic
Translations
See also
- mesokurtosis
leptokurtosis From the web:
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- leptokurtic meaning
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kurtosis
English
Etymology
Coined c. 1895 by Karl Pearson (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 ???????? (kúrt?sis, “bulging, convexity”), from ?????? (kurtós, “bulging”).
Noun
kurtosis (countable and uncountable, plural kurtoses or kurtosises)
- (statistics) 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.
- (statistics) Excess kurtosis: the difference between a given distribution's kurtosis and the kurtosis of a normal distribution.
Derived terms
Translations
kurtosis From the web:
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- what kurtosis is normal
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