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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The general form or a quantity indicative of the general form of statistical frequency curve near the mean of the distribution.

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  1. n. statistics A measure of "peakedness" of a probability distribution, defined as the fourth cumulant divided by the square of the variance of the probability distribution.

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek κύρτωσις ("bulging, convexity"), from κυρτός (kurtos, "bulging"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek kurtōsis, bulging, curvature, from kurtos, convex; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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