kertotic & skewed curves

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kertotic & skewed curves
Message posted by cristina on January 27, 2001 at 12:00 AM (ET)

I havelooked up the term kertotic in two stats books as well as a web site with a list of stat definitions. However, I still do not know what kertotic is or how it works with skewed curves...please help

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Re: kertotic & skewed curves
Message posted by nancy diehl on January 29, 2001 at 12:00 AM (ET)

I believe the term you are looking for is kurtosis.
Kurtosis measures the "peakedness" of a distribution.
If the kurtosis is clearly different than 0, then the
distribution is either flatter or more peaked than normal.
The kurtosis of a normal distribution is 0.

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