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kurtosis: References & Edit History

Article Contributors

Primary Contributors

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Other Contributors

Peter Westfall

Other Encyclopedia Britannica Contributors

Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of 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.	Yamini Chauhan	Nov 13, 2024
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Statistical notes for clinical researchers: assessing normal distribution (2) using skewness and kurtosis.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jul 13, 2024
	Add new Web site: Open Library Publishing Platform - Module 1: What Is Risk? - Kurtosis.	Gloria Lotha	May 01, 2024
	Add new Web site: Columbia University - On the meaning and use of Kurtosis.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 08, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - Kurtosis: Definition and Properties.	Gloria Lotha	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.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 15, 2023
	Add new Web site: Corporate Finance Institute - Kurtosis.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 01, 2023
	Add new Web site: SimplyPsychology - What Is Kurtosis in Statistics?	Emily Rodriguez	Sep 08, 2023
	Add new Web site: Investopedia - Kurtosis Definition, Types, and Importance.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 27, 2023
	Added cross-references.	Erik Gregersen	Jan 27, 2023
	Add new Web site: Statistics LibreTexts - Skewness and Kurtosis.	Aakanksha Gaur	Dec 19, 2022
	Article thoroughly revised.	Erik Gregersen Peter Westfall	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.	Erik Gregersen	Oct 27, 2014
	Add new Web site: Wolfram Mathworld - Kurtosis.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 23, 2014
	New article added.	John P. Rafferty	Aug 05, 2014