fat tail

English

A fat tail

Alternative forms

• fat-tail, fattail

Noun

fat tail (plural fat tails)

1. A mass of fat stored in the rump of a beast as an adaptation to heat and harsh environmental conditions or selection by man.
2. The relatively high probability of a relatively extreme outcome.
3. (statistics, probability) A tail of a probability distribution with significantly higher kurtosis than a normal distribution (which has kurtosis = 0).
4. (statistics, probability) A tail of a probability distribution with infinite variance.

Synonyms

• (high probability of extreme outcome): heavy tail
• (tail of distribution with positive kurtosis): leptokurtosis

Related terms

• fat-tailed

Translations

fat-tail of beast

• Amharic: ላት (lat)
• Arabic: أَلْيَة f (ʔalya)
• Aramaic:

  Christian Palestinian Aramaic: ܐܠܝܬܐ f

  Classical Mandaic: ࡀࡋࡉࡕࡀ f

  Classical Syriac: ܐܠܝܬܐ f (ʾellīṯā)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אֲלִיתָא f (ʾalīṯā)

  Jewish Literary Aramaic: אֲלִּיתָה f (ʾallīṯā), אֲלִּיתָא f (ʾallīṯā)

  Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: אלייתה f

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: rasvahäntä
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Fettschwanz
• Harari: ለት (lǟt)
• Hebrew: אַלְיָה (he) f (ʾalyā)
• Kazakh: құйрық (kk) (qūiryq)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دووڤ (dûv)

  Northern Kurdish: dûv (ku) m or f

• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: курдю́к (ru) m (kurdjúk)
• Silt'e: ላት (lāt)
• Swedish: fettsvans c

See also

• black swan

Anagrams

• tail fat