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== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Mean]]
* [[Normal frequency distribution]]
* [[Normal frequency distribution]]
* [[Skewed distribution]]
* [[Skewed distribution]]
* [[Skewness]]
* [[Skewness]]

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A statistical measure of the shape of a frequency distribution, in relation to a comparable normal distribution.

Kurtosis measures the relative degree of clustering of observations in the tails of the distribution and around its mean.


See also