Ghost height is unrelated to kurtosis. On the other hand, if they have a long wispy thin trailer, then they are leptokurtic.
October 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Ghost height is unrelated to kurtosis. On the other hand, if they have a long wispy thin trailer, then they are leptokurtic.
Many amazing contributions. But "kurtosis" was an unfortunate coining.
March 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Many amazing contributions. But "kurtosis" was an unfortunate coining.
Please study current literature on kurtosis. Peakedness/flatness is incorrect. Further, you *can't* have [high] kurtosis without outliers. Kurtosis is specifically a measure of the tails (outliers). Please see stats.stackexchange.com/a/659828/102... and references contained therein.
Family of symmetric unimodal distributions where kurtosis is *inversely* related to peakedness?
The paper "On the Meaning and Use of Kurtosis" was published by DeCarlo in the prestigious journal Psychological Methods in 1997. It is highly cited (>1500 cites, 129 "highly
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February 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Please study current literature on kurtosis. Peakedness/flatness is incorrect. Further, you *can't* have [high] kurtosis without outliers. Kurtosis is specifically a measure of the tails (outliers). Please see stats.stackexchange.com/a/659828/102... and references contained therein.
At least it only affects the tail!
December 7, 2024 at 6:35 PM
At least it only affects the tail!
"kurtosis means extreme values disappear?" Shouldn't it be the other way around? After all, kurtosis measures the extremes, or tails. With high kurtosis, there are guaranteed to be occasional extreme values.
November 29, 2024 at 9:21 PM
"kurtosis means extreme values disappear?" Shouldn't it be the other way around? After all, kurtosis measures the extremes, or tails. With high kurtosis, there are guaranteed to be occasional extreme values.
Classic venue!
November 25, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Classic venue!