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单词 leptokurtic
释义

leptokurticadj.

/lɛptəʊˈkəːtɪk/
Etymology: < lepto- comb. form + Greek κυρτός bulging + -ic suffix.
Statistics.
Of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation: having greater kurtosis than the normal distribution.
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1905 K. Pearson in Biometrika 4 173 Given two frequency distributions which have the same variability as measured by the standard deviation, they may be relatively more or less flat-topped than the normal curve. If more flat-topped I term them platykurtic, if less flat-topped leptokurtic, and if equally flat-topped mesokurtic.
1954 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 45 96 These curves were clearly leptokurtic as well as skewed.
1966 New Scientist 28 July 213/1 The leptokurtic or ‘peaked’ distributions that geodesists often meet with.

Derivatives

ˌleptokurˈtosis n. [kurtosis n.] the property of being leptokurtic.
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1907 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 6th Ser. 13 372 There is..sensible skewness and sensible leptokurtosis.
1937 G. U. Yule & M. C. Kendall Introd. Theory Statistics (ed. 11) ix. 165 (note) By a slip leptokurtosis is there [i.e. in Biometrika (1905) IV. 169 ff.] inadvertently applied to distributions for which β2 < 3 [instead of β2 > 3].
1949 C. D. Darlington & K. Mather Elements of Genetics 401 Kurtosis, the departure of a symmetrical frequency distribution from the normal by excess (platykurtosis) or deficiency (leptokurtosis) in its shoulders as opposed to tails and centre.
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