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10.29 kurtosis()

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double
kurtosis(const RWMathVec<double>&)
<rw/dstats.h>

10.29.1 Description

Returns the kurtosis of a vector of doubles:

where <x> is the mean of the vector and is its standard deviation (that is, the square root of the variance). The -3 term is designed to make the kurtosis 0 for a normal distribution.


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