noun
- Plural of kurtosis; measures of the sharpness of the peak and the heaviness of the tails in a probability distribution.
Usage: technical; statistics
Examples
- The kurtosises of the two datasets differed significantly, indicating different tail behaviors.
- Statisticians compared the kurtosises to determine which distribution had heavier tails.
- High kurtosises suggest the presence of outliers in the data.
- The analysis examined multiple kurtosises across different samples.