kurtosis: References & Edit History
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: Statistics LibreTexts - Skewness and Kurtosis. | Sep 25, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: NIST - Information Technology Laboratory - Measures of Skewness and Kurtosis. | Sep 05, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mustansiriyah University - Measures of Shape: Skewness and Kurtosis (PDF). | May 29, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: UNT Digital Library - A Brief Overview of Kurtosis (PDF). | Jan 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Statistical notes for clinical researchers: assessing normal distribution (2) using skewness and kurtosis. | Jul 13, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Open Library Publishing Platform - Module 1: What Is Risk? - Kurtosis. | May 01, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Columbia University - On the meaning and use of Kurtosis. | Mar 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Kurtosis as Peakedness: 1905 - 2014. R.I.P. (PDF). | Jan 25, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Statistical Meaning of Kurtosis and Its New Application to Identification of Persons Based on Seismic Signals. | Dec 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Corporate Finance Institute - Kurtosis. | Nov 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: SimplyPsychology - What Is Kurtosis in Statistics? | Sep 08, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Investopedia - Kurtosis Definition, Types, and Importance. | Jan 27, 2023 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Jan 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Statistics LibreTexts - Skewness and Kurtosis. | Dec 19, 2022 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. |
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Apr 19, 2016 | |
| Definition changed from "a measure of the peak of a variable distribution that focuses on the height of the distribution" to "a measure of the shape of the peak of the variable distribution." Equation defining kurtosis revised. | Oct 27, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wolfram Mathworld - Kurtosis. | Sep 23, 2014 | ||
| New article added. | Aug 05, 2014 |
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