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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD KURTOSIS

From Greek: curvature, from kurtos arched.
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PRONUNCIATION OF KURTOSIS

kurtosis  [kəˈtəʊsɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KURTOSIS

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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kurtosis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KURTOSIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Kurtosis

In probability theory and statistics, kurtosis is any measure of the "peakedness" of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable. In a similar way to the concept of skewness, kurtosis is a descriptor of the shape of a probability distribution and, just as for skewness, there are different ways of quantifying it for a theoretical distribution and corresponding ways of estimating it from a sample from a population. There are various interpretations of kurtosis, and of how particular measures should be interpreted; these are primarily peakedness, tail weight, and lack of shoulders. One common measure of kurtosis, originating with Karl Pearson, is based on a scaled version of the fourth moment of the data or population, but it has been argued that this really measures heavy tails, and not peakedness. For this measure, higher kurtosis means more of the variance is the result of infrequent extreme deviations, as opposed to frequent modestly sized deviations. It is common practice to use an adjusted version of Pearson's kurtosis, the excess kurtosis, to provide a comparison of the shape of a given distribution to that of the normal distribution.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KURTOSIS


apoptosis
ˌæpəpˈtəʊsɪs
asbestosis
ˌæsbɛsˈtəʊsɪs
athetosis
ˌæθəˈtəʊsɪs
carcinomatosis
ˌkɑːsɪˌnəʊməˈtəʊsɪs
endocytosis
ˌɛndəʊsaɪˈtəʊsɪs
exocytosis
ˌɛksəʊsaɪˈtəʊsɪs
halitosis
ˌhælɪˈtəʊsɪs
hyperkeratosis
ˌhaɪpəˌkɛrəˈtəʊsɪs
keratosis
ˌkɛrəˈtəʊsɪs
ketosis
kɪˈtəʊsɪs
leucocytosis
ˌluːkəʊsaɪˈtəʊsɪs
lymphocytosis
ˌlɪmfəʊsaɪˈtəʊsɪs
mitosis
maɪˈtəʊsɪs
myxomatosis
ˌmɪksəməˈtəʊsɪs
neurofibromatosis
ˌnjʊərəʊˌfaɪbrəməˈtəʊsɪs
parasitosis
ˌpærəsɪˈtəʊsɪs
phagocytosis
ˌfæɡəsaɪˈtəʊsɪs
proptosis
prɒpˈtəʊsɪs
ptosis
ˈtəʊsɪs
steatosis
ˌstɪəˈtəʊsɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KURTOSIS

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Kurdestan
Kurdish
Kurdistan
Kure
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Kurgan
kuri
Kuril Islands
Kurile Islands
Kurland
Kurosawa
Kuroshio
kurrajong
kursaal
Kursk
kurta
kuru
kurvey
kurveyor

WORDS THAT END LIKE KURTOSIS

actinic keratosis
agranulocytosis
amitosis
athrocytosis
chondromatosis
dermatophytosis
diagnosis
erythroblastosis
exostosis
gliomatosis
hemochromatosis
hyperostosis
leukocytosis
lipomatosis
macrocytosis
metasomatosis
onychocryptosis
papillomatosis
pinocytosis
spherocytosis
synostosis

Synonyms and antonyms of kurtosis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kurtosis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KURTOSIS

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Translator English - Chinese

峰度
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

curtosis
570 millions of speakers

English

kurtosis
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

kurtosis
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التفرطح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эксцесс
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

curtose
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সূঁচালতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

aplatissement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kurtosis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kurtosis
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

尖度
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

첨도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kurtosis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

độ nhọn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முகட்டளவை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कर्टोसिस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

basıklık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

curtosi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kurtoza
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ексцес
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

exces
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κύρτωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kurtose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kurtosis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kurtose
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kurtosis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KURTOSIS»

The term «kurtosis» is regularly used and occupies the 91.924 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KURTOSIS»

Discover the use of kurtosis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kurtosis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Independent Component Analysis: A Tutorial Introduction
The informal descriptor "peaky" has a formal concomitant, which is usually defined as the kurtosis of a signal's pdf. If we can find an unmixing vector w that maximizes the kurtosis of an extracted signal y — wrx then we can assume that y is a ...
James V. Stone, 2004
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The Volatility Edge in Options Trading: New Technical ...
Skewness and kurtosis are statistical parameters that quantify the differences between an actual frequency distribution and a true normal distribution. Skewness quantifies the amount by which the curve is shifted about the center. A distribution ...
Jeff Augen, 2008
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Business Statistics
Averages, dispersion, skewness, and kurtosis are complementary to one another in understanding a frequency distribution? Elucidate. 12. Explain how the measure of skewness and kurtosis can be used in describing a frequency distribution.
J.K. Sharma, 2007
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Becoming a Behavioral Science Researcher: A Guide to ...
The value of the kurtosis index in a normal distribution also equals zero; otherwise, its signs indicate the type of kurtosis, positive or negative.4 There are no absolute standards for saying when there is so much skew or kurtosis that corrective ...
Rex B. Kline, 2009
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Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical ...
Relevant background information on test Prior to reading this section the reader should review the discussion of kurtosis in the Introduction. As noted in the Introduction, kurtosis is a measure reflecting the degree of peakedness of a distribution ...
David J. Sheskin, 2003
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Risk Analysis: A Quantitative Guide
Skewness has little practical purpose for most risk analysis work, although it is sometimes used in conjunction with kurtosis (see below) to test whether the output distribution is approximately normal. High skewness values from a simulation ...
David Vose, 2008
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Statistics and Finance: An Introduction
Thus, the kurtosis is 9 for a ts-distribution. Since the densities in Figure 2.9 have the same mean and standard deviation, they also have the same tails, center, and shoulders, at least according to our definitions of these regions, and these ...
David Ruppert, 2004
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The Only Guide to Alternative Investments You'll Ever Need: ...
For the same period, the S&P 500 had skewness of –0.50.8 High-yield debt returns also exhibit high kurtosis. Kurtosis is a measurement of the degree to which exceptional values that are much larger or smaller than the average occur more ...
Larry E. Swedroe, Jared Kizer, 2010
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Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance
Excess Kurtosis Furthermore, the average of a hedge fund's returns may be pushed higher by the presence of a few large returns. By themselves, these unusual high returns are not undesirable. It is another matter if the hedge fund's stream of ...
Vinh Q. Tran, 2007
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Statistics and Data Analysis for Financial Engineering
Figure 5.3 also gives the kurtosis of the distributions in that figure. KurBin(n,p) equals 1, the minimum value of kurtosis, when n = 1 and p = 1/2. It is difficult to interpret the kurtosis of an asymmetric distribution because, for such distributions,  ...
David Ruppert, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KURTOSIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kurtosis is used in the context of the following news items.
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Analysis of the TGFβ-induced program in primary airway epithelial …
D2 linkage function in Spotfire (TIBCO). Variance, Skewness, and Kurtosis of dendrogram results were compared to 1000 random permutations ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
2
A Metacognitive Perspective on Mindfulness: An Empirical …
Several variables showed significant skewness and kurtosis and generally this would indicate that the results of the analyses should be ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
3
Limitations Of Active Share As A Measure Of 'Activeness'
One (fairly technical) example that can influence active share is the kurtosis of a portfolio's alpha. A portfolio with high kurtosis is more likely to ... «ValueWalk, Jul 15»
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Modifications of the endosomal compartment in peripheral blood …
The distributions being heavily skewed to the right (overall skewness and kurtosis of 2.7 and 16.6, respectively), we chose the median and ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Aggregate blood pressure responses to serial dietary sodium and …
A given analysis phenotype was the standardized residual from this regression. Skewness and kurtosis of these standardized variables was ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jun 15»
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Diffusion kurtosis imaging useful in assessment of HbA1c levels
1. In patients with suspected pancreatic disease, diffusion kurtosis imaging of the pancreas may be used to predict hemoglobin A1c values. 2. «2 Minute Medicine, Jun 15»
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Nkrumah Nkrumah, Wole Soyinka, & Kongi's Harvest (1)
... power dynamics and to de-peak the self-righteous kurtosis of self-criticism. Further, reading Soyinka gives the impression that the ontological ... «GhanaWeb, Jun 15»
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The Heston Model and Its Extensions in VBA
Returns are not normally distributed but exhibit skewness and kurtosis, and volatility is not constant in time but tends to be inversely related to ... «ValueWalk, Jun 15»
9
Analyst Forecast Skewness And Cross Section Stock Returns
... and Dittmar (2002) tests whether a security co-skewness and co-kurtosis with the market portfolio might influence investors expected returns. «ValueWalk, May 15»
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Morgan Stanley Quant Analysis Considers Skewness and Kurtosis
They consider a forecast method that uses returns asymmetry, or skewness, and fat tails, or kurtosis, and combines these formula factors with ... «ValueWalk, May 15»

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