Manuals/calci/KURT

KURT(N1,N2,...)

Where N1,N2,.... are the arguments to calculate the kurtosis.

This function calculates the relative peakedness or flatness of a distribution compared with the normal distribution.

· Arguments can be numbers or names, arrays, or references.

· Logical values and text representations of numbers are calculated.

· KURT shows the error value, when there are fewer than four data points, or the SD of the sample equals zero.

Formulas:-

· Kurtosis is defined as:

where s is the sample standard deviation.

KURT

Lets see an example,

KURT(N1,N2,....)

B

8

9

10

4

5

3

10

=KURT(B2:B8) is -2.0947

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