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n. The general form or a quantity indicative of the general form of a statistical frequency curve near the mean of the distribution.

n. A measure of "peakedness" of a probability distribution, defined as the fourth cumulant divided by the square of the variance of the probability distribution.

"Moreover, the central limit theorem of probability theory does not apply in this context because empirical evidence shows that a constant standard deviation is an inaccurate measure of investment risk, due to the fact that investment performance, is typically skewed and exhibits kurtosis."

platykurtosis    mesokurtic    platykurtic    mesokurtosis    leptokurtosis   

skewness    sieving    over-reporting    magneto-optical    dimensionless