KURT

KURT unbiased estimate of the kurtosis of a data set

Synopsis

KURT(number1,number2,…)

Arguments

number1: first value

number2: second value

Description

Strings and empty cells are simply ignored.

Note

This is only meaningful if the underlying distribution really has a fourth moment. The kurtosis is offset by three such that a normal distribution will have zero kurtosis. If fewer than four numbers are given or all of them are equal this function returns a #DIV/0! error.

Microsoft Excel Compatibility

This function is Excel compatible.

See also

AVERAGE, VAR, SKEW, KURTP.