#' Kurtosis of the sample #' #' @description Kurtosis is a measure of the "tailedness" of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable. #' #' @param x a vector of values, a \code{matrix} or a \code{data frame} #' @param na.rm a logical value indicating whether \code{NA} values should be stripped before the computation proceeds. #' @exportMethod kurtosis #' @seealso \code{\link{skewness}} #' @rdname kurtosis #' @export kurtosis <- function(x, na.rm = FALSE) { UseMethod("kurtosis") } #' @exportMethod kurtosis.default #' @rdname kurtosis #' @export kurtosis.default <- function (x, na.rm = FALSE) { x <- as.vector(x) if (na.rm == TRUE) { x <- x[!is.na(x)] } n <- length(x) n * base::sum((x - base::mean(x, na.rm = na.rm))^4, na.rm = na.rm) / (base::sum((x - base::mean(x, na.rm = na.rm))^2, na.rm = na.rm)^2) } #' @exportMethod kurtosis.matrix #' @rdname kurtosis #' @export kurtosis.matrix <- function (x, na.rm = FALSE) { base::apply(x, 2, kurtosis.default, na.rm = na.rm) } #' @exportMethod kurtosis.data.frame #' @rdname kurtosis #' @export kurtosis.data.frame <- function (x, na.rm = FALSE) { base::sapply(x, kurtosis.default, na.rm = na.rm) }