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kur·to·sis | \ (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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The first known use of kurtosis was in 1905
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