The Meaning of Kurtosis: Darlington Reexamined
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Statistician
- Vol. 40 (4) , 283-284
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.1986.10475415
Abstract
There seems to be no universal agreement about the meaning and interpretation of kurtosis. An easy interpretation is given here: kurtosis is a measure of dispersion around the two values μ ± σ.Keywords
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- Kurtosis Measures Bimodality?The American Statistician, 1971