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curtosis

curtosis is the alternative form of kurtosis.

Meaning of kurtosis

Noun

kurtosis (countable and uncountable, plural kurtoses or kurtosises)

  1. A measure of "heaviness of the tails" of a probability distribution, defined as the fourth cumulant divided by the square of the variance of the probability distribution.
  2. Excess kurtosis: the difference between a given distribution's kurtosis and the kurtosis of a normal distribution.

Questions about curtosis

What is curtosis the alternative form of?
Curtosis is the alternative form of kurtosis.

Words near curtosis in the dictionary

  1. Curto
  2. Curtois
  3. curtonotid
  4. curtonotids
  5. Curtos
  6. curtosis
  7. curtotic
  8. curtovirus
  9. curtoviruses
  10. curts
  11. curtsey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curtosis (page history and authors); kurtosis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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