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platykurtic:
An adjective describing a distribution with low kurtosis. 'Low' means the
fourth central moment is less than three times the second central moment; such
a distribution has less kurtosis than a normal distribution.
Platy- means 'fat' in Greek and refers to the central part of the
distribution. Platykurtic distributions are not as common as leptokurtic
ones.
Source: Davidson and MacKinnon, 1993, p 62-64
Contexts: statistics
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