Answers.com > Wiki Answers > Categories > Jobs & Education > Education > School Subjects > Math and Arithmetic > Statistics > What does kurtosis serve?

What does kurtosis serve?

In: Statistics [Edit categories]

Answer:

In probability theory and statistics, kurtosis (from the Greek word κυρτός, kyrtos or kurtos, meaning bulging) is a measure of the "peakedness" of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable. Higher kurtosis means more of the variance is due to infrequent extreme deviations, as opposed to frequent modestly sized deviations.

Sometimes kurtosis gets confused with skewness, so I have added links to both these terms.

First answer by Dblord. Last edit by Dblord. Contributor trust: 154 [recommend contributor ]. Question popularity: 2 [recommend question].

[report abuse]

Sources and related links: [Edit]

Can you answer these Statistics questions?

	What is descriptive statistics used for?	Answer it!
	What items do you put into a data table?	Answer it!
	Is manipulation a internal or external validity biases that may occur in quantitative research?	Answer it!
	What are the following types of data organizers is best able to give a quick view of the relationship between parts of a data set and the whole data set?	Answer it!
	What are the significance of greetings?	Answer it!

Relevant answers:

What is kurtosis?
I will answer your question in a couple of ways. First as a concept: Kurtosis is a measure of whether the data are peaked or flat relative to a normal distribution. That is, data sets with high...
Why is a serve in tennis called a serve?
I (believe) that it is because you give the ball to the other halve of the court, as if you are their waiter and are serving them.
Where to serve from where the serve can be taken?
deuce
Who did the knights serve why did they serve?
According to the code of Chivalry, knights in the middle ages would learn to fight and serve their leige lord. Knights should be brave and show qualities of loyalty and generousness.
How will you serve?
Many ways. One of them, is answering wiki answers. :)