Kurtosis as Peakedness, 1905–2014. R.I.P.

American Statistician

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 191-195

  Westfall, Peter H ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fourth moment; Inequality; Leptokurtic; Mesokurtic; Platykurtic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961289601     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2014.917055     Document Type: Article

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