THE DECISION TREE FOR STATISTICS
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Kurtosis

 

Use USTATS or TABLES with STATS=USTATS to compute the kurtosis of a variable.

To test departures from normality: for N greater than 1000, refer the critical ratio of the kurtosis measure to a table of  the unit normal curve; for N between 200 and 1000, refer the  kurtosis measure to a table for testing kurtosis; for N less than 200, use Geary's criterion.

 Note that the kurtosis measure is a biased estimator.