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Kurtosis

Definition: Kurtosis refers to a statistical measure that describes the shape of a data distribution. It is used to determine whether the dataset has heavy or light tails compared to a normal distribution.

Examples:

1. Noun: In statistics, kurtosis measures the peakedness or flatness of a probability distribution.
2. Verb: The data set is kurtosed, indicating a heavy-tailed distribution.
3. Adjective: The kurtosis value of 2.5 suggests a leptokurtic distribution.
4. Adverb: The distribution is kurtotically skewed towards the right.

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