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COINr (version 1.1.14)

kurt: Calculate kurtosis

Description

Calculates kurtosis of the values of a numeric vector. This uses the same definition of kurtosis as as the "kurtosis()" function in the e1071 package, where type == 2, which is equivalent to the definition of kurtosis used in Excel.

Usage

kurt(x, na.rm = FALSE)

Value

A kurtosis value (scalar).

Arguments

x

A numeric vector.

na.rm

Set TRUE to remove NA values, otherwise returns NA.

Examples

Run this code
x <- runif(20)
kurt(x)

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