Word.ws English Dictionary

kurtosis

UK/kəˈtəʊ.sɪs/US/kɚˈtoʊ.sɪs/

kurtosis noun: 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.

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.

kurtosis meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Tagalog and Arabic

kurtosis in Tamil

முகட்டளவை, தட்டை அளவு

kurtosis in Bengali

সূঁচালোতা, কার্টোসিস

kurtosis in Tagalog

measure of "tail heaviness"
umbok

kurtosis in Arabic

measure of "tail heaviness"
تَفَرْطُح tafarṭuḥ

Forms of kurtosis

pluralkurtoses
pluralkurtosises

Origin of kurtosis

Coined by English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist Karl Pearson c. 1895 (published 1899 in "On certain Properties of the Hypergeometrical Series, and so on the fitting of such series to Observation Polygons in the Theory of Chance", Phil. Mag.). From Ancient Greek κύρτωσις (kúrtōsis, “a bulging, convexity”), from κυρτός (kurtós, “bulging, convex”).

Words formed from kurtosis

Questions about kurtosis

What does kurtosis mean?
Kurtosis means 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.
What is kurtosis in Tamil?
Kurtosis in Tamil is முகட்டளவை, தட்டை அளவு. See Kurtosis meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is kurtosis?
Kurtosis is a noun.
How do you pronounce kurtosis?
Kurtosis is pronounced /kəˈtəʊ.sɪs/ (UK).
What is the plural of kurtosis?
The plural of kurtosis is kurtoses.

Words near kurtosis in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kurtosis (page history and authors); kurtosis (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Kurtosis (Bengali Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “kurtosis.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kurtosis. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.