mesokurtosisn.
/ˌmɛsəʊkəːˈtəʊsɪs/, U.S. /ˈˌmɛzoʊkərˈtoʊsəs/; see also meso- comb. form. Statistics.
The property of being mesokurtic.
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1905 K. Pearson in Biometrika 4 173 The mesokurtosis of the Gaussian curve is not a universal characteristic of frequency distributions.
1943 M. G. Kendall Adv. Theory Statistics I. v. 129 [For the normal distribution] we also have β2 = 3, γ2 = 0, which accounts for the standard adopted for mesokurtosis.
1987 Jrnl. Finance 42 209 (caption) Sample kurtosis is measured in excess of 3.0; thus, a value of zero indicates mesokurtosis, negative values indicate platykurtosis, and positive values indicate leptokurtosis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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