The degree of tailedness in a distribution is measured by _________.
- Kurtosis
- Skewness
- Standard Deviation
- Variance
Kurtosis is a statistical measure used to describe the distribution's tails and sharpness. It measures the degree of peakedness or flatness in a distribution, or in simple terms, the 'tailedness' of the distribution.
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