Explain Skewness In Statistics. Kurtosis on the other hand refers to the pointedness of a peak in the distribution curve. Kurtosis is descriptive or summary statistics and describes peakedness and frequency of extreme values in a distribution.
When the mean is less than the median has a negative skewness. Many statistics inferences require that a distribution be normal or nearly normal. Video explaining what is Skewness and the measures of Skewness.
A measure of asymmetry or skewness quantifies asymmetry in a data set how much the data is skewed.
If you look at a normal data distribution using a bell curve the curve will be perfectly. If that sounds way too complex dont worry. Kurtosis on the other hand refers to the pointedness of a peak in the distribution curve. In a perfect normal distribution the tails on either side of the curve are exact mirror images of each other.
