Descriptive Statistics
Measures of Skewness
- Pearsonian Measure of Skewness
- Measures Based on 3rd Quartile
Measures of Kurtosis
- Kurtosis is a measure of the flatness or peakedness of a Distribution
- Normal Kurtosis - Mesokurtic
- Flat Kurtosis - Platokurtic
- Peaked Kurtosis - Leptokurtic
- A Measure of Kurtosis based on the 4th moment about the Mean
If less then 0 = Platokurtic More than 0 = Leptokurtic If 0 then = Mesokurtic