Machine Learning for Developers
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Kurtosis

Kurtosis gives us an idea of the central concentration of a distribution, defining how acute the central area is, or the reverse—how distributed the function's tail is.

The formula for kurtosis is as follows:

In the following diagram, we can clearly see how the new metrics that we are learning can be intuitively understood:

Depiction of the how the distribution shape influences Kurtosis