What does kurtosis measure in a dataset?
- Central tendency
- Dispersion
- Skewness
- The "tailedness" of the distribution
Kurtosis is a statistical measure that defines how heavily the tails of a distribution differ from the tails of a normal distribution. In other words, kurtosis identifies whether the tails of a given distribution contain extreme values.
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