statistics
kurtosis
Weight of a distribution's extreme values.
Classification
- statistics
Attestation
- English definition: Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
Sources (8)
104 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- The Wall Street journal guide to information graphics: the dos and don'ts of presenting...
- Wikipedia in English↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/kurtosis.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. kurtosis. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/kurtosis.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-kurtosis,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {kurtosis},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/kurtosis.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.