SINCE 1828
kurtosis
noun
kur·to·sis
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(ˌ)kər-ˈtō-səs
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Definition of kurtosis
: the peakedness or flatness of the graph of a frequency distribution especially with respect to the concentration of values near the mean as compared with the normal distribution
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