Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with Python

Types of kurtosis

There are three types of kurtosis—mesokurtic, leptokurtic, and platykurtic. Let's look at these one by one:

• Mesokurtic: If any dataset follows a normal distribution, it follows a mesokurtic distribution. It has kurtosis around 0.
• Leptokurtic: In this case, the distribution has kurtosis greater than 3 and the fat tails indicate that the distribution produces more outliers.
• Platykurtic: In this case, the distribution has negative kurtosis and the tails are very thin compared to the normal distribution.

All three types of kurtosis are shown in the following diagram:

Different Python libraries have functions to get the kurtosis ...