Noun: kurtosis
| Singular | kurtosis |
| Plural | kurtoses; kurtosises |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like kurtosis
hypodermis,
lincolnensis,
kurtosis,
protothecosis,
hemipenis,
ecdysis,
rachitic pelvis,
coreopsis,
travis,
unguis,
praxis,
Etymology
1. Coined by English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist Karl Pearson c. 1895 (published 1899 in "On certain Properties of the Hypergeometrical Series, and so on the fitting of such series to Observation Polygons in the Theory of Chance", Phil. Mag.).
2. From Ancient Greek κύρτωσις (kúrtōsis, “a bulging, convexity”), from κυρτός (kurtós, “bulging, convex”).
Verbs referencing "kurtosis"
Finnish Nouns
kurtoosi.