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English
Etymology
platy- + kurtosis + -ic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
platykurtic (comparative more platykurtic, superlative most platykurtic)
- (statistics) Of a distribution: having kurtosis less than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having negative excess kurtosis.
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Translations
having negative excess kurtosis
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