1. plural of kurtosis; measures of the sharpness or flatness of the peak of a frequency distribution curve in statistics
Usage: statistics; technical

Examples

• The researcher calculated the kurtoses for all the data sets in the study.
• Different probability distributions have characteristic kurtoses that help identify their shapes.
• The statistician compared the kurtoses of the normal and uniform distributions.
• High kurtoses indicate distributions with sharp peaks and heavy tails.
• The software automatically computed the means, variances, and kurtoses of the samples.
• Students learned to interpret kurtoses as measures of distribution peakedness.