excess kurtosis
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[edit]Noun
[edit]excess kurtosis (plural excess kurtoses)
- (statistics) Kurtosis minus 3; the difference between the kurtosis of a given distribution and the kurtosis of a normal distribution.
Usage notes
[edit]- Many sources refer to excess kurtosis simply as kurtosis. This usage is convenient but ambiguous; where clarity is essential, the term excess kurtosis is more precise.