How to Use Excel's KURT Function

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Tip 1 - Giving Kurtosis a Workout | Risk & Decision Analysis News on WordPress.com

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Mitch Hunter | permalink

Kurtosis is a statistical measure of a random process that is often used, but perhaps less widely understood. This blog mentions a couple of key issues and misunderstandings about kurtosis in a risk assessment model.A high kurtosis figure is sometimes described as being associated with a distribution that has “fat tails”. However, by simply overlaying…

For further reading: http://blog.palisade.com/2009/06/15/giving-kurtosis-a-workout/ ^[1]