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Meaning of "leptokurtic" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LEPTOKURTIC

From lepto- + Greek kurtos arched, bulging + -ic.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LEPTOKURTIC

leptokurtic  [ˌlɛptəʊˈkɜːtɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LEPTOKURTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Leptokurtic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES LEPTOKURTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

leptokurtic

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 LEPTOKURTIC


acetic
əˈsiːtɪk
aeronautic
ˌɛərəˈnɔːtɪk
aortic
eɪˈɔːtɪk
astronautic
ˌæstrəˈnɔːtɪk
cathartic
kəˈθɑːtɪk
chemotherapeutic
ˌkiːməʊθɛrəˈpjuːtɪk
desertic
dɪˈzɜːtɪk
electrotherapeutic
ɪˌlɛktrəʊˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪk
etic
ˈiːtɪk
hermeneutic
ˌhɜːmɪˈnjuːtɪk
immunotherapeutic
ˌɪmjʊnəʊˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪk
mesokurtic
ˌmɛsəʊˈkɜːtɪk
nontherapeutic
ˌnɒnˌθerəˈpjuːtɪk
pharmaceutic
ˌfɑːməˈsuːtɪk
platykurtic
ˌplætɪˈkɜːtɪk
psychotherapeutic
ˌsaɪkəʊθerəˈpjuːtɪk
quartic
ˈkwɔːtɪk
radiotherapeutic
ˌreɪdɪəʊˌθerəˈpjuːtɪk
subtherapeutic
ˌsʌbθerəˈpjuːtɪk
therapeutic
ˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LEPTOKURTIC

leptocephali
leptocephalic
leptocephalous
leptocephalus
leptocercal
leptodactyl
leptodactylous
leptome
lepton
lepton number
leptonic
leptophos
leptophyllous
leptorrhine
leptosomatic
leptosome
leptosomic
leptospiral
leptospire
leptospirosis

WORDS THAT END LIKE LEPTOKURTIC

acoustic
anacathartic
artic
artistic
athletic
Atlantic
authentic
automatic
democratic
diagnostic
domestic
dramatic
erotic
exotic
fantastic
holistic
hydrostatic
plastic
romantic
static

Synonyms and antonyms of leptokurtic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «leptokurtic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LEPTOKURTIC

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Translator English - Chinese

尖峰
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

leptokúrtica
570 millions of speakers

English

leptokurtic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

leptokurtic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

leptokurtic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

leptokurtic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

leptocúrticas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

leptokurtic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

leptokurtique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Leptokurtic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

leptokurtisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

急尖
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

leptokurtic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Leptokurtic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

leptokurtic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கூர்முகடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लेप्टोकॉर्टिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

leptokurtotik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

leptokurtic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

leptokurtic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

leptokurtic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

leptokurtic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λεπτοκυρτικές
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

leptokurtic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

leptokurtic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

leptokurtic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of leptokurtic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LEPTOKURTIC»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LEPTOKURTIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about leptokurtic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEPTOKURTIC»

Discover the use of leptokurtic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to leptokurtic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical ...
Kurtosis is often described within the framework of the following three general categories, all of which are depicted by representative frequency distributions in Figure 1.3: mesokurtic, leptokurtic, and platykurtic. A mesokurtic distribution, which ...
David J. Sheskin, 2003
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Research Methods and Statistics: A Critical Thinking Approach
FIGURE 5.4 A normal distribution kurtosis How flat or peaked a normal distribution is. mesokurtic Normal curves that have peaks of medium height and distributions that are moderate in breadth. leptokurtic Normal curves that are tall and thin, ...
Sherri Jackson, 2011
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Probability Theory and Statistical Inference: Econometric ...
In the case where the distribution in question has a flatter peak than the Normal ( a4< 3), we call it platykurtic, and in the case where it has a more pointed peak than the Normal («4>3), we call it leptokurtic; platv and lepto come from the Greek  ...
Aris Spanos, 1999
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Plant Breeding Systems
Leptokurtic distribution The outstanding feature of both anemophilous and zoophilous pollen travel is its leptokurtic distribution, a pattern that is common to most biotic movements (Handel, 1983). The leptokurtosis of zoophilous pollen travel is ...
A. J. Richards, 1997
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Market Risk Analysis, Value at Risk Models
0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 Leptokurtic Density Equivalent Normal VaR 0.05 VaR 0.01 VaR 0.05 VaR 0.01 Figure IV.2.9 Comparison of normal VaR and leptokurtic VaR • For low significance levels (e.g. 5%), the normal assumption can overestimate ...
Carol Alexander, 2009
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Statistics Plain and Simple
... certain special characteristics. kurtosis How flat or peaked a normal distribution is. mesokurtic Normal curves that have peaks of medium height and distributions that are moderate in breadth. leptokurtic Normal curves that are tall and thin, ...
Sherri Jackson, 2013
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Statistics in Biology & Psychology
The normal distribution is said to be mesokurtic and its peakedness of a medium order is taken as the standard (Fig. 6.4). A leptokurtic distribution has a higher and sharper peak, thicker tails and a narrower body than the normal distribution ...
D. Das & A. Das, 1980
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Invasion Ecology
A leptokurtic dispersal curve suggests there are more extreme movement events, or long-distance dispersal events, than we would expect, based on the reactiondiffusion model. There are two types of leptokurtic dispersal curves. The first still ...
Julie L. Lockwood, Martha F. Hoopes, Michael P. Marchetti, 2009
9
Advanced Analytical Models: Over 800 Models and 300 ...
60. Exotic. Options—Leptokurtic. and. Skewed. Options. File Name: Exotic Options—Leptokurtic and Skewed Options Location: Modeling Toolkit | Exotic Options | Leptokurtic and Skewed Options Brief Description: Computing options where ...
Johnathan Mun, 2008
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Seats, Votes, and the Spatial Organisation of Elections
For two CPDs at two elections with the same variance, if one is leptokurtic while the other is normal, the leptokurtic distribution will have more marginal seats and hence be more unstable. Hence this particular nonnormality will produce a ...
Graham Gudgin, Peter J. Taylor, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LEPTOKURTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term leptokurtic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Navigating Stock Price Crashes
It has long been established that the distribution of stock returns is leptokurtic, meaning that extreme outcomes are more common than for a ... «ValueWalk, Jun 15»
2
Lessons from the financial crisis
Our stock returns are also leptokurtic, asymmetric, and also exhibit quite strong changes in volatility over time. The only thing in which we ... «Bangkok Post, Jun 15»
3
STRAIGHT TALK: Coin it, for what it's worth
These artificial overrides result in daily price movements which follow a leptokurtic rather than a normal distribution (look it up, smile). So, which ... «BDlive, Nov 14»
4
COLUMN-Oil market reveals its wild side again: Kemp
Instead, the distribution is leptokurtic: there are more days with either very small movements or very large price movements than would be ... «Reuters, Nov 14»
5
Investors Must be Bribed: An Inquiry into Options and Skewness
A kurtosis with a higher number than 3 is “leptokurtic.” Bali et al. find that each of these three moments is positively related to ex ante expected ... «AllAboutAlpha.com, Jan 14»
6
Beating the Best Mutual Funds: FFRHX Portfolio Optimization Part I
The data is more peaked at the mean and has significantly fatter tails, something we refer to as excess positive kurtosis or a leptokurtic ... «Equities.com, Nov 13»
7
Goldcorp Inc. (USA) (GG): Is Goldcorp A 'True Bargain' For Our Non …
Mkt -Rf: 6.7155742641 = the distribution is leptokurtic, that is it is more "pointed" than a normal distribution. Return on gold - Rf: 2.8905968625 ... «Seeking Alpha, Nov 13»
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VXX: Why It Gets Some Interesting Reactions
The flip side of a leptokurtic distribution is that you see more observations around the mean, and that holds in this case pretty clearly. Finally, we ... «TheStreet.com, Dec 12»
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Should You Be Worried About Europe's Train Wreck?
... types of statistical probability distributions, sometimes called “fat tails”, “black swans”, or for the indoctrinated, the Leptokurtic distribution. «Forbes, Jun 12»
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Sonia Schulenburg, Level E Capital: “In this environment any …
In fact, these tend to be leptokurtic distributions with a high peak and fat tails. This makes risk management a complex area, and the industry ... «HedgeWeek, Mar 12»

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