"kurtosis" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /kəˈtəʊ.sɪs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌkɜːˈtəʊ.sɪs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /kɚˈtoʊ.sɪs/ [Canada, General-American], /ˌkɝˈtoʊ.sɪs/ [Canada, General-American], /kəˈtəʉ.sɪs/ [General-Australian], /ˌkɜːˈtəʉ.sɪs/ [General-Australian] Forms: kurtoses [plural], kurtosises [plural]
enPR: kər-tō′sĭs [General-Australian] Etymology: Coined by English mathematician and biometrician Karl Pearson c. 1895 (published 1899 in "On certain Properties of the Hypergeometrical Series, and so on the fitting of such series to Observation Polygons in the Theory of Chance", Phil. Mag.). From Ancient Greek κύρτωσις (kúrtōsis, “a bulging, convexity”), from κυρτός (kurtós, “bulging, convex”). Etymology templates: {{coinage|en|Q310794|in=c. 1895}} Coined by English mathematician and biometrician Karl Pearson c. 1895, {{der|en|grc|κύρτωσις||a bulging, convexity}} Ancient Greek κύρτωσις (kúrtōsis, “a bulging, convexity”), {{m|grc|κυρτός||bulging, convex}} κυρτός (kurtós, “bulging, convex”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~|kurtoses|+}} kurtosis (countable and uncountable, plural kurtoses or kurtosises)
  1. (statistics) A measure of "heaviness of the tails" of a probability distribution, defined as the fourth cumulant divided by the square of the variance of the probability distribution. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Statistics Translations (measure of "tail heaviness"): curtosi [feminine] (Catalan), 峰度 (fēngdù) (Chinese Mandarin), špičatost [feminine] (Czech), koeficient špičatosti [masculine] (Czech), huipukkuus (Finnish), kurtoosi (Finnish), kurtosis [masculine] (French), coefficient d’aplatissement [masculine] (French), Kurtosis [feminine] (German), Wölbung [feminine] (German), curtose [feminine] (Portuguese), эксце́сс (ekscéss) [masculine] (Russian), коэффицие́нт эксце́сса (koefficiént ekscéssa) [masculine] (Russian), curtosis [feminine] (Spanish), umbok (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-kurtosis-en-noun-5W9nugD6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics Disambiguation of 'measure of "tail heaviness"': 96 4
  2. (statistics) Excess kurtosis: the difference between a given distribution's kurtosis and the kurtosis of a normal distribution. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Statistics
    Sense id: en-kurtosis-en-noun-OfNkIDnD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: excess kurtosis, heterokurtosis, homokurtosis, leptokurtic, leptokurtosis, mesokurtic, mesokurtosis, platykurtic, platykurtosis

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