kurtosis
/kɜːrˈtoʊsɪs/
a measure of the 'tailedness' of a probability distribution
kurtosis in a sentence
“High kurtosis indicates more extreme outliers.”
Origin of kurtosis
Greek kyrtos curved, arched + -osis
Related Words
multivariate
involving two or more random variables
percentile
the value below which a given percentage of observations fall
outlier
an observation that lies far from other values
normal distribution
a symmetric bell-shaped probability distribution
binomial
relating to experiments with two possible outcomes
Poisson distribution
a distribution modeling rare events over fixed intervals