3 Types Of Kurtosis. Aug 17 2019 Kurtosis and Skewness Leptokurtic. Bell-shaped curve symmetric about the mean.
Its tails approach the x-axis on both sides but will never touch them. 1 Platykurtic - negative kurtosis value indicating a flatter distribution that normal bell curve. Leptokurtic or heavy-tailed distribution kurtosis more than normal distribution Mesokurtic kurtosis same as the normal distribution Platykurtic or short-tailed distribution kurtosis less than normal distribution.
Distributions that are moderate in breadth and curves with a medium peaked height.
Kurtosis is a measure of whether the data are heavy-tailed or light-tailed relative to a normal distribution. Kurtosis is a measure of whether the data are heavy-tailed or light-tailed relative to a normal distribution. More values in the distribution tails and more values close to the mean ie. But differences in the tails are easy to see in the normal quantile-quantile plots right panel.
