See Also: Excess kurtosis(money)
Excess kurtosis(finance)
Kurtosis(money)
kurtosis(dictionary)
Kurtosis(finance)
kurtosis(medicine)
Tight money or dear money(finance)
Excess(medicine)
Excess Value(money)
excess(dictionary)

Excess kurtosis (money)


Definition: [crh] Kurtosis measures the "fatness" of the tails of a distribution. Positive excess kurtosis means that distribution has fatter tDefinition: ails than a normal distribution. Fat tails means there is a higher than normal probability of big positive and negative returns realizations. When calculating kurtosis, a Definition: result of +3.00 indicates the absence of kurtosis (distribution is mesokurtic). For simplicity in its interpretation, some statisticians adjust this result to zero (i.e. kurtosis minus 3 equals zerDefinition: o), and then any reading other than zero is referred to as excess kurtosis. Negative numbers indicate a platykurtic distribution; positive numbers indicate a leptokurtic distribution.