Although commodities do occasionally crash, in general commodity prices are positively kurtotic (fat-tailed) and positively skewed. This is in contradistinction to equity prices, which are positively ...

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Kurtosis, or the fourth central moment in statistics, is commonly used to estimate the shape of the statistical distribution of a signal (or data). It is widely used for detecting non-normality in the ...

Kurtosis is a statistical measure that describes the shape of a distribution's tails in relation to a normal distribution. In finance, kurtosis is used to assess the risk of investments, particularly ...

Christmas season is as good a time as ever to remind you that a probability distribution has two tails. Event distributions have been getting a lot of attention over the past several years, especially ...