Kurtosis of the sample

Kurtosis is a measure of the "tailedness" of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable.

kurtosis(x, na.rm = FALSE)

# S3 method for default
kurtosis(x, na.rm = FALSE)

# S3 method for matrix
kurtosis(x, na.rm = FALSE)

# S3 method for data.frame
kurtosis(x, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x	a vector of values, a matrix or a data.frame
na.rm	a logical value indicating whether NA values should be stripped before the computation proceeds.

Questioning lifecycle

The lifecycle of this function is questioning. We are no longer convinced that this function is the optimal approach (but we do not know yet what a better approach would be), or whether this function should be in our AMR package at all.

Read more on our website!

On our website https://msberends.gitlab.io/AMR you can find a comprehensive tutorial about how to conduct AMR analysis, the complete documentation of all functions (which reads a lot easier than here in R) and an example analysis using WHONET data.

See also

skewness()