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kurtosis (iou)



kurtosis noun. E20.
[Greek kurtosis a bulging, convexity, from kurtos bulging, convex: see -OSIS.]
Statistics. The degree of sharpness of the peak of a frequency-distribution curve, spec. as measured by the quantity ¦Ì4/¦Ì22 or its excess over 3 (¦Ì4 and ¦Ì2 being the fourth and the second moments about the mean of the distribution).