mesokurtic distribution
statistics
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In statistics, kurtosis measures the distribution of a variable in its tails. A mesokurtic distribution is one that closely resembles a normal frequency distribution, meaning it is neither leptokurtic (wide tails, positive kurtosis) nor platykurtic (narrow tails, negative kurtosis). Mesokurtic distributions have a kurtosis of zero. The term "kurtosis" itself comes from the Greek word for "convex" or "humpbacked," though it primarily relates to tail behavior rather than the peak of a distribution.12
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