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platykurtic

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  • adjective statistics said of a distribution if it has negative kurtosis

Etymologies

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Possibly a compound of platy- + kurtosis + -ic

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. platykurtotic

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. leptokurtic

relateds (2)

relateds

  1. kurtosis
  2. platykurtosis

cross-references (1)

Cross-references

  1. mesokurtic

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  • johnmperry commented on the word platykurtic

    also platykurtotic

    August 26, 2008

  • MaryW commented on the word platykurtic

    Distributions with long tails are called leptokurtic; distributions with short tails are called platykurtic. Normal distributions have zero kurtosis.

    David M. Lane et al., Introduction to Statistics (I don't see the date), p. 669

    April 7, 2018