descriptr (version 0.5.1)

ds_kurtosis: Kurtosis

Description

Compute the kurtosis of a probability distribution.

Usage

ds_kurtosis(x, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector containing the values whose kurtosis is to be computed

na.rm

a logical value indicating whether NA values should be stripped before the computation proceeds.

Value

Kurtosis of x

Details

Any NA values are stripped from x before computation takes place.

References

Sheskin, D.J. (2000) Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures, Second Edition. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC.

See Also

ds_skewness

Examples

# NOT RUN {
ds_kurtosis(mtcars$mpg)
# }