different between platykurtic vs kurtosis

English

Etymology

Probably platykurtosis +? -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?plat??k??t?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?plædi?k??d?k/
• Hyphenation: pla?ty?kurt?ic

Adjective

platykurtic (comparative more platykurtic, superlative most platykurtic)

1. (statistics) Of a distribution: having kurtosis less than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having negative excess kurtosis.

Synonyms

• platykurtotic

Antonyms

• leptokurtic

Related terms

• kurtosis
• platykurtosis

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See also

• mesokurtic

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)

1. (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.
2. (statistics) Excess kurtosis: the difference between a given distribution's kurtosis and the kurtosis of a normal distribution.

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