See Also: Wodehouse, P. G.(dictionary)
Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)(encyclopedia)

kurtosis (iou) and Wodehouse, P. G. (oh)


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).

Wodehouse, P. G. (oh)



(1881-1975) a British writer who later moved to the US, who wrote many humorous novels about upper class English people. His best-known stories are about a rich and stupid young man called Bertie Wooster, who does not work and spends most of his time visiting Other rich people. He depends on his clever servant Jeeves to get him out of trouble.