Excess Kurtosis. Nov 11 2020 Kurtosis ranges from 1 to infinity. A distribution with negative excess kurtosis equal to -1 has an actual kurtosis of 2.
DEFINITION of Kurtosis Like skewness kurtosis is a statistical measure that is used to describe distribution. Kurtosis excess is commonly used because of a normal distribution is equal to 0 while the kurtosis proper is equal to 3. Platykurtic distributions have negative excess kurtosis.
Nov 11 2020 Kurtosis ranges from 1 to infinity.
Required for kurtosis function. 1 2 It is commonly denoted Abramowitz and Stegun 1972 p. Kurtosis is a measure of whether the data are heavy-tailed or light-tailed relative to a normal distribution. Nov 11 2020 Kurtosis ranges from 1 to infinity.
