Kurtosis

{
  "id": "MLC-T-MET-006823",
  "term": "Kurtosis",
  "field": "Meteorology and atmospheric science",
  "definition": "A statistical measure describing the shape of a probability distribution, specifically the weight of its tails relative to its central peak. It quantifies how prone a dataset is to producing values that are far from the mean or median. A distribution with high kurtosis has heavy tails and a sharp peak, indicating a greater frequency of extreme outliers, whereas a low kurtosis distribution has light tails and a flatter top.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/meteorology/kurtosis/"
}