Kurtosis
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Describes whether your data distribution has long or short tails compared to the normal distribution (the "peakedness"). Values can be centered around 0 (Sokal and Rohlf, 1981), platykurtic means a flattened (repulsed) distribution with negative values, leptokurtic means a sharply peaked (clumped) distribution (Parnell, ).