Kurtosis Definition

kər-tōsĭs
kurtoses
noun
The degree of peakedness of the graph of a statistical distribution, indicative of the concentration around the mean.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Kurtosis

Noun

Singular:
kurtosis
Plural:
kurtoses

Origin of Kurtosis

  • Greek kurtōsis bulging, curvature from kurtoun to make bulge from kurtos convex sker-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek κύρτωσις (kurtōsis, “bulging, convexity”), from κυρτός (kurtos, “bulging”).

    From Wiktionary

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