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What is Kurtosis?

Statistics

첨도

A value showing how thick the tails of a distribution are. A large value describes a distribution that is usually quiet but occasionally produces extreme values. Market returns generally have high kurtosis, so the mean and standard deviation alone underestimate risk.

Kurtosisthe sharper the peak, the more frequent the extremes

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