The meaning of kurtosis: Darlington reexamined

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There seems to be no universal agreement about the meaning and interpretation of kurtosis. An easy interpretation is given here: Kurtosis is a measure of dispersion around the two values μ ± σ. © 1986 American Statistical Association.

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Moors, J. J. A. (1986). The meaning of kurtosis: Darlington reexamined. American Statistician, 40(4), 283–284. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.1986.10475415

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