kurtosis: Kurtosis

In HervePerdry/M1SP: Examples for the Master 1 de Santé Publique

Kurtosis

Description

Kurtosis

Usage

kurtosis(x, excess.kurtosis = FALSE, sample = FALSE, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x	numerical vector.
excess.kurtosis	logical. Compute excess kurtosis instead of kurtosis?
sample	logical. Compute sample kurtosis or apply correction?
na.rm	logical. Should missing values be removed?

Value

The value of the (excess) kurtosis. If sample = FALSE a correction for sample size is applied.

Examples

# kurtosis of the height in EUR2170 data
kurtosis(EUR2170$height, sample = TRUE)
# adults only
he <- subset(EUR2170, age > 20, "height")
kurtosis(he, sample = TRUE)
# males and females separately
heM <- subset(EUR2170, age > 20 & sex == "M", "height")
heF <- subset(EUR2170, age > 20 & sex == "F", "height")
kurtosis(heM, sample = TRUE)
kurtosis(heF, sample = TRUE)

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