Kurtosis
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Kurtosis refers to the degree of tailedness in the probability distribution of a real-valued, random variable in probability theory and statistics. Similar to skewness, kurtosis provides insight into
The coin toss is the most platykurtic distribution
Skewness
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Skewness in probability theory and statistics is a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean. Similarly to kurtosis, it provides insights
Kurtosis
…refers to the degree of tailedness in the probability distribution of a real-valued, random variable in probability theory and statistics. Similar to skewness, kurtosis provides insight into specific characteristics of a distribution. Various methods exist for quantifying kurtosis in theoretical distributions…
Example of an asymmetric distribution with zero skewness. This figure serves as a counterexample that zero skewness does not imply symmetric distribution necessarily. (Skewness was calculated by Pearson's moment coefficient of skewness.)