leptokurtosis

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leptokurtosis

noun

  1. uncountable The property of having kurtosis greater than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having positive excess kurtosis.

    Similar: fat tail, heavy tail

Opposite: platykurtosis

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Opposite: platykurtosis

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Françaisleptokurticité, lepto-kurticité

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@misc{leptokurtosis_2026,
  title = {leptokurtosis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/leptokurtosis},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}