MESOKURTIC
A term used in statistics where the kurtosis of a distribution is the same or identical to the kurtosis of a usually distributed data set. It measures a distribution’s peak, meaning how much the distribution is focused on the distribution mean.
The kurtosis coefficient of a normal distribution is 3.
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