Term ID: T3094

Kurtosis

/kurtosis/
A statistical measure of the distribution's tail heaviness, important in psychological test development and data analysis.
Example: Examining whether personality test scores cluster around the mean or include many extreme scores in the tails.

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Reference: Pearson (1905)