Sentences with phrase «high kurtosis»

In addition, item 12, 17, and 22 also showed very high kurtosis (i.e., 26.0, 14.1, and 42.7, respectively).

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I saw a study showing that 1) average IQ has increased by 15 points in the past 50 years and that 2) Asians have the highest median IQ with negative kurtosis to the normal distribution.

Kurtosis, fatter tails and higher peaks, or skewness on the distribution can be problematic for the ratio, as standard deviation doesn't have the same effectiveness when these problems exist.

If you have a situation where you are pretty sure that the likelihood will beat down the tails of your distribution, then what you really want in an uninformative prior is one that maximizes your width rather than the extreme tails of the distribution — relatively high standard deviation and relatively low kurtosis.

the used to be wet, but now hot + dry might well have lower variance, but also might have moved the mean higher and increased the kurtosis.

The kurtosis varied between − 0.4 and 1.6, but in the case of the subscale Conduct Problems it did reach high levels, up to 7.8 in case of 11 - years old girls.

The multivariate kurtosis estimate was high (Mardia normalized z - statistic = 58.71) rejecting multivariate normality.

Because of the very skewed distribution (skewness = 3.27 and kurtosis = 11.97) the outcome measure was recoded as a binomial variable (median split), in which 0 indicated a low Disgust mean and 1 a high Disgust mean.