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Describing distributions using kurtosis

Another means of describing the shape of a distribution is by its kurtosis, which can represent the size of its central peak and how spread out the tails are.

Kurtosis allows you to summarize whether values are bunched up close to the mean, and how far out any extreme values may lie.

Three definitions have been provided. Your task is to select which one accurately represents a normal distribution with negative kurtosis.

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Introduction to Statistics

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