adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Of a distribution: having kurtosis greater than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having positive excess kurtosis.

Synonyms

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fat-tailedleptokurtoticleptokurtotic

Antonyms

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platykurtic

Etymology

From lepto- + kurtosis + -ic.

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