November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
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5.23 FUNCTIONAL VIEW OF KURTOSIS
Finally, we provide a functional view of kurtosis demonstrating that it depends on the degree to which the pdf has heavy tails. The fourth-central moment is
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Figure 5.19 shows an example of
for Laplace and Gaussian pdfs. We have also plotted the cumulative area
FIGURE 5.19 Functional view of kurtosis, showing FX(x),
, and D(x). (a) Laplace with
. (b) Gaussian with
.
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as x is varied over the support of FX(x), and where
. In both cases, the variance has been set to one so that
is the same as the kurtosis (subtracting three gives the excess kurtosis). ...
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