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kurtoses

kurtoses is the plural 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.

Phrases with kurtoses

Questions about kurtoses

What is kurtoses the plural of?
Kurtoses is the plural of kurtosis.

Words near kurtoses in the dictionary

  1. kurtids
  2. Kurting
  3. kurtis
  4. Kurtoed
  5. Kurtofsky
  6. kurtoses
  7. kurtosis
  8. kurtosises
  9. kurtotic
  10. kurtoxin
  11. Kurtz

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