kurtosis: Kurtosis of a vector

In stevetnz/stevesRfunctions: My Collection of Miscellaneous R Functions

Description

Computes the excess or absolute kurtosis of a vector. By default, it returns the excess kurtosis, so that (for example) the Normal distribution returns values near zero.

Usage

kurtosis(x, excess = TRUE, na.rm = TRUE)

Arguments

x	numeric vector
excess	logical; compute excess rather than absolute kurtosis?
na.rm	logical; should missing values be removed?

See Also

skewness

Examples

kurtosis(rnorm(1000))
kurtosis(rnorm(1000), excess=FALSE)
kurtosis(runif(1000))
kurtosis(rcauchy(1000))

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