kurtosis

Statistics

Sample excess kurtosis. Normal distribution has excess kurtosis of 0. High kurtosis indicates heavy tails.

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Syntax

kurtosis(x)

Examples

kurtosis([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
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See Also

skewnessstd

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