Kurtosis
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What is Kurtosis?
Kurtosis measures the heaviness of a distribution's tails compared to a normal distribution. High kurtosis (leptokurtic) means more values in the tails and a sharper peak; low kurtosis (platykurtic) means thinner tails and a flatter peak. It is used alongside skewness to assess whether data approximates a normal distribution.
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Kurtosis: common questions
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Is this Kurtosis tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 54 of 100 in the free Data Analyst roadmap, in stage 9, Descriptive Analysis. If you are new to Data Analyst, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.