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Kurt

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Function Description

Returns the (sample) kurtosis,  (or more precisely the ‘excess’ kurtosis) of a series  (for ), calculated as follows:

 

 

Here,  is the mean and  is the (sample) standard deviation of the series

 

The equivalent function in Microsoft Excel is KURT.

 


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